COVID-19
COVID-19
Human Rights and Health Information and Resources - Staying Healthy Together
We hope this page of links and resources is useful. It will be regularly updated as new information comes out. Please send comments/suggestions/complaints to dtp@unsw.edu.au
Health Information
Washing hands with soap and physical distancing are the most important things an individual can do to protect themselves and others
Go to information you can trust - be careful of "fake news" - reject news that targets migrants, or any ethnicity, other country or minority - How to spot coronavirus fake news - an expert guide (The Conversation), Myth busters (WHO), Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center and their free browser extension (NewsGuard)
The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) COVID-19 page - Facts, advice, best practices - please share with others
WHO's COVID Health Alert on WhatsApp - now available in 18 languages (September 2020)
WHO/UNICEF/UNDP WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub - simple, actionable guidance along with general tips and resources to reduce the spread of rumours and connect with accurate health information via WhatsApp
ILO - COVID-19 and world of work: Impacts and responses - workers' rights - health and safety at work - guidance and standards
- Coronavirus information in your language - news and information in 63 languages from Australia's SBS. A focus on the Australian response but useful COVID-19 health information
Human Rights and COVID-19
The Social and Economic Impacts of Covid-19 in the Asia-Pacific Region - UNDP report looking at socio-economic recovery from the pandemic in Asia and the Pacific
COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions - UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - key issues, statements from experts - racism, disability, detention and more
- COVID-19 Guidance - UN's OHCHR - guidance for a human rights-based response in key areas including access to health, emergency measures, people with disabilities, migrants and refugees, and gender
Human Rights Dimensions of COVID-19 Response - Human Rights Watch - useful guide to international human rights standards, COVID-19 and key issues - help demand a human rights-based response to COVID-19
Human Rights and Health - WHO resources for a human rights-based approach
10 key messages on Human Rights and COVID-19 - info graphic and guidance produced by the OHCHR Regional Office for the Pacific
UN Guidance Note on Addressing and Countering COVID-19 Related Hate Speech - guidance note providing recommendations to Member States, civil society, media and other relevant stakeholders for addressing and countering COVID-19-related hate speech
On Guard - portal produced by UNSW's Australian Human Rights Institute to share news, reflections, and policy advances on COVID-19 across the human rights spectrum
How COVID-19 is changing the world: A statistical perspective (Volume II) - Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities data snapshot report from over 30 international organisations on how COVID-19 is affecting different aspects of public and private life (September 2020)
Human Rights in Southeast Asia in Times of Pandemic - report from FORUM-ASIA summarising their series of webinars held between March and May 2020 to discuss the measures taken by ASEAN and its Member States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on the human rights situation on the ground (August 2020)
To defeat pandemics, put human rights at the center of global health - Danish Institute for Human Rights, 3 August 2020
Human rights groups urge privacy protection in COVID-19 contact tracing efforts - The Jakarta Post, 1 July 2020
- Civic Space and Covid-19: Guidance - guidance note from the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the importance of a space for civil society during a pandemic (May 2020)
