United Nations System Resources

General Resources

• UN Coronavirus Response

• UNESCO Resource Center for COVID-19

• World Health Organization: Coronavirus Pandemic

COVID-19 and Human Rights Resources

• UN Policy Brief on Human Rights and COVID-19

• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: COVID-19 and its Human Rights Dimensions

• UN  Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: COVID-19 and Special Procedures

• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19

• World Health Organization: Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response

• Business 
  • UNDP: Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business
  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: COVID-19 and its impact on businesses and workers
     
• Children
  • UNICEF COVID-19 Resources

• Conflict
  • UN Chief Calls for Global Ceasefire
  • UN Security Council Resolution 2532: Support for Secretary-General’s Global Ceasefire Appeal
  • UN Security Council Resolution 2565: Call for Increased Global Cooperation to Facilitate COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Conflict Areas

• Data Responsibility 
  • UN Global Pulse COVID-19 Data Protection and Privacy Resources
  • UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Data Responsibility in the COVID-19 Response

• Detention
  • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the World Health Organization Interim Guidance on COVID-19: Focus on Persons Deprived of their Liberty

• Displaced Populations
  • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees: Resources on COVID-19

• Education 
  • UNESCO Webinars on COVID-19 Education Response

• Emergency Measures
  • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Guidance on Emergency Measures and COVID-19

• Freedom of Information and Expression
  • Broadband Commission Research Report on 'Freedom of Expression and Addressing Disinformation on the Internet'
  • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Governments Must Promote and Protect Access to and Free Flow of Information during Pandemic
  • UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Report on Disease Pandemics and Freedom of Opinion and Expression

• Labor
  • ILO: Covid-19 and the world of work: Global impact and policy recommendations
• Racial Equity 
  • UN Experts: Racial equity and equality must guide state action in COVID-19 response

• Sustainable Development Goals
  • UN Conference on Sustainable Development Goals in the Era of COVID-19: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation

• Women
  • UN Women COVID-19 Response
  • UN COVID-19 and Gender Monitor
  • UN Experts: Responses to the COVID-19 Could Exacerbate Preexisting and Deeply Entrenched Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • UN Call to Action for G7 Stakeholders on Key Gender Equality Actions in COVID-19 Response and Recovery
  • UN COVID-19 Response: Women Rise for All

• Xenophobia
  • UN Special Rapporteur: States Should Take Action Against COVID-19-Related Expressions of Xenophobia

Other Selected Resources

General  

• Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities: How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective
  

• COVID-19 Law and Policy Database
  

• International Justice Resource Center Collection of COVID-19 Guidance from Supranational Human Rights Bodies

• International Science Council COVID-19 Global Science Portal 

• InterAcademy Partnership: Academy Response to COVID-19
   
• International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies' Call for a Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19
  

• Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Dimensions of COVID-19 Response
  

• Health and Human Rights Journal Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 and Human Rights
  

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Commitments and State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Physicians for Human Rights: COVID-19 Resources for Health Professionals
  

Digital Freedom and Data Security 

• Privacy International: Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
  

• Article 19: Access to the Internet Can Be a Matter of Life and Death During a Pandemic
  

• Human Rights Watch: COVID-19 Apps Pose Serious Human Rights Risks

Freedom of Expression

• AccessNow Recommendations for States on Fighting Misinformation and Defending Free Expression During COVID-19

• Government Accountability Project on COVID-19: The Largest Attack on Whistleblowers in the World
  

Marginalized Groups

• Call to Action for G7 Stakeholders on Key Gender Equality Actions in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

• Gender & COVID-19 Working Group 

• Human Rights First: Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis While Protecting Asylum Seekers
  

• U.S. Center of Disease Control and Prevention: COVID-19 Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups

Professional Associations and Societies 

• American Association of Geographers Summer Series on Questions of Geoethics and Human Rights Highlighted by COVID-19 Conditions
  

• American Medical Association's COVID-19 Resource Center for Physicians

• American Psychological Association: Combating Bias and Stigma Related to COVID-19
  

• International Bar Association: COVID-19 Human Rights Monitor

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