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A Conversation With U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye: COVID-19 and Freedom of Expression
Ryan Goodman, Just Security's co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of questions to David Kaye, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.
Nixon Went to China. Trump Should Go to Wuhan.
This week the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) convenes in virtual format, under the shadow of a dangerous pandemic, and with…
COVID-19 and Health Systems: Responding to Unpredictable Predictability
Health systems across the world have been tested by this pandemic, and many have been found wanting, surprised by the pandemic’s ferocity and its unknowness, its seeming unpredictability.…
Accommodating Medical Professionals with Pre-Existing Health Conditions in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Although the health care field has not historically been especially open to making accommodations for disabled workers, we can hope that the current pandemic will prompt a change…
Russia’s Humanitarian Law Obligations to Civilians in Occupied Ukrainian Territories in the Time of COVID-19
An examination of the Russian Federation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Crimea and eastern Ukraine exposes a range of deficits that likely entail breaches of various…