COVID-19: From the Frontlines

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Learn about the advocacy and demands from our members in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic:   

[Joint Statement] ASEAN must uphold human rights in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic:

>> https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=31333

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Preliminary Monitoring Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Human Right to Food and Nutrition

>> https://www.fian.org/files/files/Preliminary_monitoring_report_-_Impact_of_COVID19_on_the_HRtFN.pdf

Credit to government for measures to combat spread of coronavirus, but protecting individuals’ income and mitigation of economic and social impacts of the virus prevention are necessary:
>> https://eipr.org/en/press/2020/03/credit-government-measures-combat-spread-coronavirus-protecting-individuals%E2%80%99-income

Latinoamérica y COVID-19: ¿Cómo queda la justicia? | Ciclo de conversaciones virtuales sobre la respuesta de los sistemas de justicia frente a la emergencia

>> http://dplf.org/es/event/latinoamerica-y-covid-19-como-queda-la-justicia

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Serie de conversaciones digitales sobre coronavirus y desigualdad

>> https://www.dejusticia.org/programate-para-las-conversaciones-digitales-sobre-coronavirus-y-desigualdad/

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Time for a Rights-Based Global Economic Stimulus to Tackle COVID-19

>> https://www.cesr.org/time-rights-based-global-economic-stimulus-tackle-covid-19

 

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Joint civil society statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights

>> https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3020812020ENGLISH.pdf

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In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs:
>> http://mezan.org/en/post/23701

COVID-19 Measures in Gaza’s Prison and Detention Facilitates Mean Suspended Contact Between Al Mezan and Clients:
>> http://mezan.org/en/post/23703

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Addameer and Al-Haq Send Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Situation of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons amidst Concerns over COVID-19 Exposure.

>> http://addameer.org/news/addameer-and-al-haq-send-appeal-un-special-procedures-situation-palestinian-prisoners-israeli

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Arab Joint List, Adalah turn again to Supreme Court, demanding halt to Shin Bet’s invasive surveillance of citizens in struggle against coronavirus:
>> https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9957

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A regional civil society Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy in Latin America calls on States to undertake broad fiscal redistribution, and on multilateral institutions to free up fiscal space, in order to avoid dire human rights consequences.

>> https://www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/P%26G%20COVID19%20Statement%204.23.20%20.pdf