Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises

Foreword x
Cees Flinterman
Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xv

1 Introduction to Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better 1
Andrea Broderick and Jennifer Sellin

PART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEGAL PERSPECTIVES, IN TIMES OF CRISES
2 Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: can human rights embrace solidarity? 13
Dalia Palombo
3 Human rights in times of triage: the discourse of the United Nations human rights experts during COVID-19 41
Gustavo Arosemena
4 EU social rights in a (post-)pandemic era: peering through the lens of disability and vulnerability 66
Andrea Broderick and Jasper Krommendijk

PART II SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISES
5 The right to health: then, now and in the future 96
Jennifer Sellin and Brigit Toebes
6 The COVID-19 pandemic and access to clean water: challenges and opportunities 121
Kasim Balarabe
7 Never walk alone: using international cooperation and the right to science to build back better 145
Remmy Shawa
8 The right to science: another tool to repair gender inequalities in sciences and research 169
Yvonne Donders
9 Indigenous rights during the pandemic and the concept of building back better in endemic times 193
Vanessa Tünsmeyer
10 Conclusion 214
Jennifer Sellin and Andrea Broderick

Index 228