A Human Rights Approach to Emergency Response? The Advocacy of Canada's Human Rights Commissions during the COVID-19 Crisis

Emergencies can threaten human rights by disrupting societies, increasing vulnerabilities, and instigating exceptional measures from governments and other actors. As independent institutions mandated to protect and promote the human rights embedded in Canada's federal, provincial and territoria...

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Autor principal: De Silva, Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Research Note/Notes de recherche
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248589/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423920000438
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description Emergencies can threaten human rights by disrupting societies, increasing vulnerabilities, and instigating exceptional measures from governments and other actors. As independent institutions mandated to protect and promote the human rights embedded in Canada's federal, provincial and territorial legislation, Canada's human rights commissions (HRCs) have mobilized to advocate for human rights during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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spelling pubmed-72485892020-05-26 A Human Rights Approach to Emergency Response? The Advocacy of Canada's Human Rights Commissions during the COVID-19 Crisis De Silva, Nicole Can J Polit Sci Research Note/Notes de recherche Emergencies can threaten human rights by disrupting societies, increasing vulnerabilities, and instigating exceptional measures from governments and other actors. As independent institutions mandated to protect and promote the human rights embedded in Canada's federal, provincial and territorial legislation, Canada's human rights commissions (HRCs) have mobilized to advocate for human rights during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7248589/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423920000438 Text en © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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