Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings

Jones, Nicholas

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“…145 Despite addressing this gap, the implementation of this provision has been negated in practice, with scientists and civil society denied the use of this right to share information, and the media, as seen in the COVID-19 outbreak, facing imprisonment for reporting necessary public health information. 146 Upon notification, the WHO Director-General, advised by an Expert Committee, independently declares whether such an event constitutes a PHEIC, 147 and may then issue temporary recommendations to WHO member states on the measures they should, or should not, implement to address the public health threat. 148 These recommended measures may include how persons and goods are to be treated by countries, including recommendations either for or against restrictions at points of entry (land borders, airports, and ports), the use of quarantine or isolation, the requirements of medical examinations, treatments, or vaccinations, contact tracing, access to medical records, or travel and trade restrictions.…”

Section: Pheics and Temporary Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rights-Based Approaches to Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Infectious Disease

Meier

Evans

Phelan

2020

International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

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Policymakers have come to look to human rights law in framing national health policy and global health governance. Human rights law offers universal frameworks to advance justice in public health, codifying international standards to frame government obligations and facilitate accountability for realising the highest attainable standard of health. Addressing threats to individual dignity as 'rights violations' under international law, health-related human rights have evolved dramatically to offer a normative framework for public health. Yet, public health efforts to address infectious disease continue to employ mechanisms that infringe individual rightsfrom the recent Ebola epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that threatens the world-with public health laws violating individual bodily integrity through vaccination and treatment mandates, violating individual medical privacy through surveillance and reporting, and violating individual liberty through quarantine and isolation. This chapter examines the implementation of human rights law in infectious disease control, analysing rights-based approaches to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.Part I outlines the theoretical framework for health and human rights and describes evolving efforts to balance individual rights protections against government public

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Section: Pheics and Temporary Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%