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Human Rights Dispatches: human rights issues within the context of the coronavirus pandemic

The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions examines relevant human rights issues in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

Human Rights Dispatch No. 1: Police use of force and lethal force in a state of emergency (Also available in PDF)
Human Rights Dispatch No. 2: COVID-19 and the protection of the right to life in places of detention (Also available in PDF)
Human Rights Dispatch No. 3: Call for a human rights assessment of the international community’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, comparative

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