John Harrington, of Cardiff Law and Global Justice, and Professor of Global Health Law, Cardiff University, and Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor of Law, Warwick University, have made a submission to the Joint Parliamentary Human Rights Committee Inquiry on COVID-19 setting out the UK’s extraterritorial human rights obligations at times of pandemics, with a particular focus on the right to health, and evaluating the UK’s performance at global level with reference to these obligations.
Communicable Diseases and Human Rights: Key Issues for Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current Covid-19 pandemic and the measures implemented across the world to combat it have profound implications for human rights. Justifications need to be found for restrictions on civil liberties with a solid basis in public health science. Social and economic rights to health, food and a basic livelihood are directly threatened and also impacted by lockdown measures. In this paper Dr Sharifah Sekalala (Warwick Law School) and Professor John Harrington (Cardiff Law and Global Justice) discuss the human rights issues raised by communicable diseases.
Human Rights Scholar Delivers Kapila Hingorani Lecture on Modern Slavery
The Cardiff Law and Global Justice Annual Kapila Hingorani lecture was given this year by Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway and outgoing chair of the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
New Delhi Internship: Cardiff Law and Global Justice Students in India
African Feminist Judgments Project Launched by Cardiff Law and Global Justice
The African Studies Association’s biennial conference at the University of Birmingham was the venue for the launch of our African Feminist Judgments Project on 11th September.
Cardiff Law and Global Justice contributes to Cambridge Symposium on Sustainable Development
Cardiff Law and Global Justice was delighted to contribute to the Third International Symposium of the Learned Society of Wales on ‘Ethics of Sustainable Prosperity for All’ held at the Magdalene College in Cambridge from the 11th to the 13th of September 2018.
