COVID-19 and the Human Rights of Nationals Abroad

Guofu Liu*

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摘要

The COVID-19 pandemic is having serious and disproportionate effects on nationals abroad and their families globally. Many states have adopted positive measures including temporarily suspending forced returns as well providing visa and work permit extensions, temporary residence, or other forms of regular status to ensure that migrants are accounted for in national responses to the pandemic. Nevertheless, the human rights of nationals abroad and nationals with foreign family members have faced significant challenges. Some states have fully or partially closed entry to all of their own nationals and their foreign family members, in violation of nationals' right to return and their right of family unification. Other states' nationals abroad have been unable to enjoy the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to health. Many have also encountered the burdens of hate speech in both their home states and the states in which they live, the effect of which has been to undermine freedom of opinion and expression and the right to equality and non-discrimination. This essay identifies and explains these threats to human rights in the era of COVID-19. The essay encourages states to recommit to rights protection.

源语言英语
页(从-至)317-321
页数5
期刊AJIL Unbound
114
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 9 11月 2020

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Liu, G. (2020). COVID-19 and the Human Rights of Nationals Abroad. AJIL Unbound, 114, 317-321. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2020.61