Archive: 2020

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 187 – 198 PDF Altaf Saadi, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Caitlin Patler, Jeremias Leonel Estrada, and Homer Venters Abstract A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 293 – 204 PDF Elise Baker, Eric Stover, Rohini Haar, Andrea Lampros, and Alexa Koenig Abstract Human rights investigators often review graphic imagery of potential war crimes and human rights abuses while…

Dainius Pūras I have no doubt that around the world we will soon be facing an increase in mental health issues in the wake COVID-19. The impact of the pandemic, and the measures taken to contain it, may well be long lasting on our mental well-being,…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 279 – 292 PDF Sándor Gurbai Abstract According to a longstanding definition of non-discrimination, differential treatment does not constitute discrimination if the purpose or effect of the differential…

Marie Claire Van Hout On March 25th 2020, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged States to relieve prison congestion and reduce the prison/detainee population.[1] Accordingly,. assessing alternatives to imprisonment and implementing…

Takondwa Chimowa, Stephen Hall, and Bernadette O’Hare As governments around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with a range of policies aimed at mitigating the economic fallout, we argue that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 199 – 2908 PDF Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allan Maleche, Alessandra Nilo, Fogue Foguito, Umunyana Rugege, Sasha Stevenson, Githinji Gitahi, Ana Lorena Ruano, Michele Barry, Sara Hossain, Franciscka…

Nirmalya Chaudhuri Various governments around the world have chosen to stifle freedom of speech and expression, especially that of health workers, in an attempt to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The tragic fate of Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who…

R. Rima Jolivet, Charlotte E Warren, Pooja Sripad, Elena Ateva, Jewel Gausman, Kate Mitchell, Hagar Palgi Hacker, Emma Sacks, and Ana Langer The COVID-19 pandemic has strained health systems and exacerbated system deficiencies and subpopulation…

Sara L.M. Davis The COVID-19 lockdown has proven economically devastating, and to enable people to move freely and start national economies moving also, many governments are exploring digital contact tracing. Mobile phone apps that track individual…