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Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic affected much of the world’s human rights for 2020 and 2021 and will continue to have human rights ramifications for years to come. While many things have fundamentally changed due to the pandemic, COVID-19 has also shined a spotlight on certain realities about the existing international human rights regime that may have been missed before. This concluding article to the special issue focuses on four realities that have become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the implications of these realities on the next generation of human rights research. Understanding the future of global human rights, including the right to health, requires the holistic and long-term approach suggested by Chiozza and King, incorporating lessons learned from the current pandemic in ways that will help us predict and solve future human rights challenges.
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1 See Arbogast et al. (Citation2020) for an investigation into the low correlation of state capacity and COVID-19 deaths.
2 For notable exceptions, see Cole (Citation2015) and Anaya-Muñoz (Citation2019).
3 For a notable exception that examines public opinion and COVID-19 with a focus on human rights, see Bohler-Muller et al. (Citation2021).
4 See also Haschke (Citation2017), Beger and Hill (Citation2019), Franklin (Citation2020) for further discussions of the growing study of oppression and preventive repression as somewhat distinct from physical integrity rights abuses.
5 See Roth (Citation2004) for some additional discussion on why the advocacy community has focused primarily on a narrow subset of human rights.
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Amanda Murdie
Amanda Murdie is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affairs and head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She studies international relations, specializing in the behavior of international nongovernmental organizations and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations.