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Is returning to pre-COVID-19 levels of ‘equality’ enough?

by Zaineb Ali Beyond the Council, Blog, Blog, Contemporary and emerging human rights issues

Oxfam recently published a new report, ‘ The Inequality Virus ’, which offers startling new data on the state of inequality around the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It demonstrates that COVID-19 has the potential to increase inequalities in almost every country at once – the first time this has happened since records began over a century ago. The virus …

Human Rights and COVID-19: ‘Build Back Better’

by Steven L. B. Jensen Blog, Blog, By invitation, Contemporary and emerging human rights issues

We are living in times that call for leadership of the responsible and visionary kind. Such leadership is visible in a number of states and the citizens living there are in a better situation because of it. We are also witnessing distinct examples of the opposite. Here, we see that populations are suffering much more than necessary as political leaders …