Policy Brief: The UK's International Human Rights Obligations during COVID-19

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.

Submission to the Joint Parliamentary Human Rights Committee Inquiry on COVID-19