Bond University Faculty of Law: ‘COVID-19 and Human Rights: Balancing Obligations During Extraordinary Times' - 10 November 2020, 17.00-18.00 (AEST)

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COVID-19 is causing a health emergency but also a human rights emergency. All governments have human rights obligations (regarding rights to life and health) to take measures to combat COVID-19. However, those same measures often interfere with other human rights, such as rights to livelihood, education, and association. How is it possible to work out the appropriate balance in this extraordinary time of COVID? The speaker will also address human rights issues arising from the pandemic regarding access to information, and will foreshadow human rights issues that will arise with regard to any vaccine.