The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey

Clay, Khelani; Abdelwahab, Mennah; Bagwell, Stephen; Barney, Morgan; Burkle, Eduardo; Hawley, Tori; Rowden, Thalia Kehoe; LaVelle, Meridith; Parker, Asia; Rains, Matthew

doi:10.1080/14754835.2022.2082244

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“…As such, the analysis here is unique because I spell out the concrete mechanisms through which dehumanisation generates actual and material abuses in the context of a crisis. Besides, so much of the COVID-19 and human rights literature thus far has documented the abuses without developing a broader explanatory framework for explaining dehumanisation during crises (Chiozza and King, 2022;Clay et al, 2022;Greer et al, 2021;Lundgren et al, 2021;May and Daly, 2020;Wong and Wong, 2020). In redress of that neglect, I present an explanatory framework, as shown by Figure 1, which presents the four macro-social processes of dehumanisation amid a global crisis.…”

Section: Problematizing Covid-19 and Dehumanisationmentioning

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Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Regilme

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The COVID-19 global pandemic is understood to be a multidimensional crisis, and yet undertheorised is how it reinforced the politics of dehumanisation. This article proposes an original framework that explains how dehumanisation undermines the human dignity of individuals with minoritised socio-economic identities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework identifies four interrelated mechanisms of crisis-driven dehumanisation: threat construction, expanded state coercion, reinforcement of hierarchies, and normalisation of deaths. The article argues that an understanding of these mechanisms is crucial for capturing the complexity of human rights deterioration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article uses the plausibility probe method to demonstrate macro-processes of dehumanisation, with illustrative empirical examples from diverse societies during COVID-19. It proposes a framework for understanding these dehumanisation processes that can apply to other transnational crises.

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Section: Problematizing Covid-19 and Dehumanisationmentioning

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Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Regilme

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…As estimativas da Human Rights Watch (HRW, 2021), baseando-se em dados da Organização das Nações Unidas, apontam que 90% das crianças e jovens em idade escolar no mundo tiveram a sua educação prejudicada pela pandemia. Os autores Clay et al (2022), salientam, porém, que os danos verificados na educação de muitas crianças em todo o mundo estão sustentados em questões precedentes à Covid-19, nomeadamente quanto à estabilidade económica, social e políticas públicas. Agora chegou o momento de traçar uma visão de como a educação pode emergir mais forte do que nunca desta crise global e lembrar um caminho para capitalizar o novo apoio à educação em todas as comunidades do mundo.…”

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O Impacto da pandemia na aprendizagem dos estudantes: Um ensaio sobre o futuro do ensino superior

Santos

2023

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A pandemia da COVID-19 forçou uma mudança na aprendizagem remota e presencial da noite para o dia para a maioria dos alunos do ensino superior, a partir da primavera de 2020. Para complementar as videoaulas e envolver os alunos numa sala de aula virtual, os professores adotaram tecnologias que permitiram mais interatividade e modelos híbridos de ensino online e atividades presenciais. Essas ferramentas mudaram a metodologia, o ensino e a avaliação de feições que podem persistir após a pandemia e eventuais epidemias. Para se envolverem de uma forma mais eficaz com os alunos, as instituições de ensino superior terão de se concentrar em oito dimensões da experiência de aprendizagem. Nesta análise descrevemos os resultados de um estudo das tecnologias de aprendizagem que podem possibilitar aspetos de várias dessas oito dimensões da experiência de aprendizagem online. Existe a necessidade urgente de reeducar as próximas gerações de alunos com ferramentas digitais e fazer uso de práticas e competências digitais. A educação em Comportamento Educacional (CE) é difundida em todo o mundo. Existe algum consenso no campo sobre quais os construtos a medir. Foi determinado no estudo a existência de padrões ou princípios seguidos para o esboço da avaliação e atividades presenciais nos vários níveis de ensino. Essas ferramentas mudaram a aprendizagem, o ensino e a avaliação de maneiras que podem persistir após a pandemia. Ter filhos em idade jovem, adolescente e adulta e no ensino deu para constatar o impacto da pandemia na aprendizagem e no bem-estar dos alunos e dos agregados familiares, professores, responsáveis escolares e comunidades académicas inteiras. Estudantes de todo o mundo estão, em média, oito meses atrasados em relação ao que estariam se não fosse a pandemia. Até 2040, os alunos com o curso superior inacabado devido ao COVID-19 podem custar à economia global US$ 1,6 trilião. Então, qual é o caminho a seguir para os sistemas escolares?

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“…Given the deep interdependence between just governance and health inequities, the pandemic saw wide-spread violations of human rights perpetrated in the name of COVID-19. A Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) survey of practitioners within human rights organisations (including non-governmental organisations, lawyers, and journalists) reported negative impacts on a wide range of human rights in 2020, with participants identifying the worst impacts on 'rights to opinion and expression, assembly and association, food, education, health and work' [44]. The pandemic offered a pretext for outright human rights abuses, including authoritarian power grabs, crackdowns on civil society, and police violence.…”

Section: Health Inequities and Human Rights Violations During Covidmentioning

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Interdependent Determinants of Health and Death? Examining the Linkages between Health Equity, Human Rights, and Democracy during COVID-19

Forman,

Jackson

2023

Annals of Global Health

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Background:The COVID-19 pandemic has been characterised by health inequities in differential rates of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality and differential access to essential COVID-19-related health care interventions such as vaccines. Inequities through the pandemic have deeply illuminated the interdependence between health inequities, human rights, and democratic leadership and the imperative to delve more deeply into these key determinants of health, illness, and death. Methods:In this paper, we consider what COVID-19 suggests we should be learning about the relationships between democracy, human rights, and health equity. We first elaborate on the growing prominence of the framework and discourse of health equity. We turn to elaborate on a longer-standing trend of democratic backsliding and populist leadership during COVID-19. We consider human rights violations and domestic and global inequities that have characterised COVID-19 and COVID responses. Findings and conclusions:The pandemic has illustrated how rights-violating, negligent, and inequitable political leadership can deeply determine health outcomes. It has equally shown how democratic norms and institutions, including human rights and equity, offer discourse, standards, and tools that can be effectively used to challenge inequitable leadership on health. More fundamentally, it underscores how great the need is for approaches to public health emergencies rooted in human rights, equity, and good governance, including through a pandemic treaty in negotiation.

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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

O Impacto da pandemia na aprendizagem dos estudantes: Um ensaio sobre o futuro do ensino superior

Interdependent Determinants of Health and Death? Examining the Linkages between Health Equity, Human Rights, and Democracy during COVID-19

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