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Emergency measures and COVID-19: Guidance

2020

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner

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This fact sheet provides guidance for the use of emergency powers within the parameters provided by international human rights law. It describes allowable restrictions on human rights during periods of emergency measures, actions that States must take to ensure human rights obligations are met, and penalties for human rights violations.

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Emergency measures and COVID-19: Guidance.

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner. (2020). Emergency measures and COVID-19: Guidance. Geneva, Switzerland: Author.

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