human rights – Pandemic Perspectives

Protest and the Pandemic

Posted on March 23, 2021November 1, 2021Debates, Politics, Society

During the pandemic, the British government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, both of which restricted the right of assembly and therefore the right to protest. In enforcing these restrictions, ...

Covid and disability

Posted on February 15, 2021November 1, 2021Debates, Society

Two-thirds of the people who have died from Covid-19 have had disabilities. Despite this chilling statistic, the impact of the pandemic on disabled people as a group is rarely acknowledged, at best treated as an ...