Decalogue for the protection of human rights in pandemics

Edited by Foundation Abogacía Española under the coordination of Francisca Sauquillo.

What are the legislative tools necessary and provided to restrict fundamental rights when facing a health emergency? Can we guarantee effective judicial protection in the face of these exceptional restrictions? Is a disinformation campaign about the effects of a virus, generated or promoted by a private organization or a government, part of freedom of expression? How much can we paralyze economic activity due to not entirely predictable health risks? What future does the technological capacity that already exists today to fully control, analyze and track our lives holds for our rights?

For the Legal Profession, the human rights framework is the correct anchor point for the complex political exercise that involves the temporary relocation of fundamental legal rights in a serious pandemic. […]

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INTRODUCTION. Victoria Ortega Benito;
1. THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE MANAGEMENT OF PANDEMICS.
Carlos R. Fernandez Liesa;
2. THE PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS. Natalia Peiro Perez:
- Old people. Carlos María Romeo Casabona and José Miguel Rodríguez-Pardo del Castillo.
- People with disabilities. Luis Cayo Pérez Bueno;
- People with chronic diseases. Carina Escobar Manero;
- Boys and girls. Carles López Picó;
- Access to housing. Javier Rubio Gil;
- Prison population. Ángel Luis Ortiz González;
- Migrants and refugees. Estrella Galán Pérez;
3. ACCESS TO MEDICATIONS AND VACCINES. Jose Vida Fernandez;
4. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SANITARY MODEL. José Ramón Repullo Labrador;
5. THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Jose Moises Martin Carretero;
6. THE FUNCTIONING OF JUSTICE. Michael Rock;
7. THE MAINTENANCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY. Jesus Ruiz-Huerta;
8. THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. Soledad Gallego-Diaz;
9. THE APPROACH ON NATIONAL SECURITY. Constantino Mendez Martinez;
10. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT. Marta Iglesias and Maite Serrano;

ANNEXED. DECALOGUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE SENIOR IN A SITUATION OF PANDEMIC. Mutualidad de la Abogacía

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