Episode 20: Authoritarian International Law?
Democracy, Governance, and Rule of Law
The Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union: A Solidarity Tool at Test by the COVID-19 Pandemic
After the first cases of what would later be named "COVID-19" were notified by China on December 31, 2019, the European Union (EU) reported its three first detected cases on January 24, 2020. As of April 18, 785,229 detected cases and 78,576 deaths had been reported by the 27 EU member states, while the total number of detected cases and deaths reported worldwide were 2,197,593 and 153,090 respectively.
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Covid-19: Just Disastrous or the Disaster Itself? Applying the ILC Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters to the Covid-19 Outbreak
As of April 18, 2020, Covid-19, designated as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), infected more than 2 million persons.[1] This dramatic increase in the number of cases since the first reported case on December 31, 2019, sparked a range of responses from various public and private actors.
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Human Rights Law in the Time of the Coronavirus
Over time, natural calamities and armed conflicts have demonstrated that human rights are often the first casualties of a crisis.
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