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.

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S Sekalala & J Harrington, ‘Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Human Rights From AIDS to Ebola’ in L Gostin and B Mason Meier (eds), Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2020) 221-241 [with a foreword by Dr Tadros Adhanom Gebreysus, Director General of the World Health Organization].