Human Rights and COVID-19

Policy Brief: COVID-19 and Human Rights: We are all in this together - UN report highlighting how human rights can and must guide COVID-19 response and recovery (23 April)
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women - UN report on how COVID-19 could reverse the limited progress that has been made on gender equality and women’s rights – and recommends ways to put women’s leadership and contributions at the heart of resilience and recovery (10 April)
CESCR Covid-19 Statement - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' statement on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights and press note (6 April)
Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 - UN Secretary-General's report describing the speed and scale of the outbreak, the severity of cases, and the societal and economic disruption of COVID-19 (March 2020)

COVID-19: A Human Rights Checklist - Human Rights Watch - 40 questions to guide a rights-respecting response to this crisis that addresses the needs of groups most at risk, including people living in poverty, ethnic and religious minorities, women, people with disabilities, older people, LGBT people, migrants, refugees, and children
Physical, emotional and digital protection while using home as office in times of COVID-19 - Front Line Defenders provide ideas & tips for human rights defenders
COVID-19 and Persons Deprived of Liberty Information Hub - Association for the Prevention of Torture hub collects and archives information related to issues and measures taken by government agencies, criminal justice actors, penitentiary institutions and oversight bodies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19: How human rights can help protect us - Amnesty International look at how human rights can help protect us, and what the obligations of governments are in relation to the pandemic
On Guard - UNSW's Australian Human Rights Institute online portal with news, reflections, and policy advances on COVID-19 across the human rights spectrum