{"id":18803,"date":"2020-07-26T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=18803"},"modified":"2020-07-26T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T08:07:34","slug":"who-lauched-new-covid-19-law-lab-to-provide-vital-legal-information-and-support-for-the-global-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/who-lauched-new-covid-19-law-lab-to-provide-vital-legal-information-and-support-for-the-global-covid-19-response\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Lauched New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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World Health Organization(WHO) launched the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic on 22nd july 2020. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to press release, the new Lab is a joint project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the O\u2019Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO states that, “well-designed laws can help build strong health systems; evaluate and approve safe and effective drugs and vaccines; and enforce actions to create healthier and safer public spaces and workplaces. Critically, they are key to effective implementation of the WHO International Health Regulations: surveillance; infection prevention and control; management of travel and trade; and implementation of measures to maintain essential health services.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaws and policies that are grounded in science, evidence and human rights can enable people to access health services, protect themselves from COVID-19 and live free from stigma, discrimination and violence,\u201d says Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator. \u201cThe COVID-19 Law Lab is an important tool for sharing good practices on laws and policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a vast increase in urgent legislative action to control and reduce the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStrong legal frameworks are critical for national COVID-19 responses,\u201d said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. \u201cLaws that impact health often fall outside the health sector. As health is global, legal frameworks should be aligned with international commitments to respond to current and emerging public health risks. A strong foundation of law for health is more important now than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, laws that are poorly designed, implemented, or enforced can harm marginalized populations, entrench stigma and discrimination, and hinder efforts to end the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarmful laws can exacerbate stigma and discrimination, infringe on people\u2019s rights and undermine public health responses,\u201d according to Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS. \u201cTo ensure responses to the pandemic are effective, humane and sustainable, governments must use the law as a tool to uphold the human rights and dignity of people affected by COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 Law Lab is a database of laws that countries have implemented in response to the pandemic. It includes state of emergency declarations, quarantine measures, disease surveillance, legal measures relating to mask-wearing, social distancing, and access to medication and vaccines. The database will continue to grow as more countries and themes are added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will also feature research on different legal frameworks for COVID-19. These analyses will focus on the human rights impacts of public health laws and help countries identify best practices to guide their immediate responses to COVID-19 and socioeconomic recovery efforts once the pandemic is under control. It builds off the work of the UHC Legal Solutions Network, which was established to help countries achieve universal health coverage through the implementation of rights-based legal frameworks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to track and evaluate how laws and policies are being used during the Pandemic to understand what works,\u201d said Dr. Matthew M. Kavanagh, faculty in Georgetown University\u2019s Department of International Health. Katie Gottschalk, Executive Director of the O\u2019Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center added, \u201cWe must learn lessons from the early stage of pandemic policies to implement the most effective laws going forward \u2013 the COVID-19 Law Lab allows us to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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