Human Rights
Catalyzing Rights:
Index of advances during COVID-19
While many government responses to the pandemic have violated human rights, other measures have sought to protect rights from incursion or even tried to improve them. Through “Catalyzing Rights: Index of Advances during COVID-19,” the Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic tracks these official measures—globally and at all levels of government—that seek to advance civil and political rights, equality rights, governance rights, and socio-economic rights throughout the pandemic.
By identifying and documenting potential good practices across twenty rights, the tracker is an accountability tool to guide pandemic responses as well as a way to help reimagine a post-pandemic future that fully centers rights.
The tracker is intended to be interactive and evolving, with the planned addition of measures (submit a measure) as well as more extended briefing papers.
