Analyzing the obligations of governments in supporting the right to health and its intersection with other human rights in the face of the corona disease

Elahi, Majid; Javid, Mohammad Javad; Mirzade Kohshahi, Nader

doi:10.22034/mral.2025.2043466.1662

Analyzing the obligations of governments in supporting the right to health and its intersection with other human rights in the face of the corona disease

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

majid elahi ¹

mohammad javad javid ²

nader mirzade kohshahi ³

¹ phd student of Public International Law, Department of Public Law, Alborz Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

² Professor, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/mral.2025.2043466.1662

Abstract

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have implemented public health policies that restrict individual freedoms in order to control disease transmission. Although the application of many restrictions is necessary to control the pandemic, it seems that many of these policies have been extensive and have not paid attention to the rights of the population prone to human rights violations.In addition, Covid-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities based on access to health care, poverty, racial injustice, refugee crises and lack of education. As a result of creating such a situation, using the human rights approach in response to the corona disease is an undeniable necessity.Therefore, the main question that this research seeks to answer is the examination of the limits and loopholes of governments' powers in restricting human rights in the conditions of the outbreak of the contagious and contagious disease of Corona. The results of this research show that public health policy interventions that were implemented in 2020 had negative effects on the human rights of marginalized populations, and this shows the need to review the policymaking and design of public health policies, taking into account all persons protected by human rights.

Keywords

Obligations

government

right to health

Corona

human rights

Subjects