@inbook{a7c8249df8574cf79d99799efae8af81,
title = "Human rights in times of triage: The discourse of the United Nations human rights experts during COVID-19",
abstract = "The present chapter aims to map the institutional response of the United Nations (UN) human rights experts to the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically informed qualitative analysis is used to identify the emphasized themes in the emerging UN discourse, and which themes were under-emphasized. Tensions and contradictions are also highlighted. This chapter explores equality as the core demand of human rights, the tensions that lie in calls for proportionality, the relative lack of consideration of trade-offs and resource scarcity as well as the relative absence of normative absolutes. It also explores how human rights discourse interfaced with science and democracy.",
keywords = "conflicts of rights, COVID-19, deference, human rights, proportionality, triage",
author = "Gustavo Arosemena",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Edward Elgar Publishing.",
year = "2024",
month = dec,
day = "13",
doi = "10.4337/9781035306657.00011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781035306640",
series = "The Association of Human Rights Institutes series",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing",
pages = "41--65",
editor = "Andrea Broderick and Jennifer Sellin",
booktitle = "Socio-Economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better",
address = "United Kingdom",
}