Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky, eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the second installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights…
Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky,eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the first installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights based…
Photo by Donald Tong on Pexels This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In recent weeks, scholars, organizers, and healthcare providers have reflected on the impact of COVID-19 on all of our lives. Social scientists and practitioners have put together online collaborations…
Photo by jaefrench on Pixabay This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. As COVID-19 tightens its lethal grip on the globe, a palpable tension emerges between the authority of governmental officials in every state in the U.S. who have issued guidelines limiting social interactions to…
This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In a 2016 article in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, George Annas developed four guiding principles, which he argued could helpfully chart a broad health and human rights response to the spread of…
Photo by Queven on Pixabay This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Congressman Clay Higgins, representing Louisiana’s Third Congressional District, recently drew attention for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the congressman addressed a letter to Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards…
Photo by Pixabay on Pixabay (CCO) An earlier version of this essay was published here, on Diresom. This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On February 19, 2020, I received the first of many phone calls from the media about a new…
This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened concerns among human rights advocates that governments will use their police powers to suspend or severely curb fundamental rights in the name of public health, welfare,…
Source: NIAID-RML/ Flickr CC.BY.2.0 This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The author is a practicing surgeon who volunteered early in the pandemic to staff an expansion intensive care unit at a hospital in the northeast United States. The following…
Pixabay (License) This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. As the holiday of Passover approaches, we think of the last days of the Jews in Egypt. We think of Pharaoh faced with a slave-insurrection and a series of plagues that ravage his…