Governance

Friends or Foes? International Law and Health Nationalism During COVID-19

The pandemic exposed a troubling gap between the letter and the spirit of human rights law

A health ministry official gets the temperature of a migrant before receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 in the Mavrovouni camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on June 3, 2021.
A health ministry official gets the temperature of a migrant before receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 in the Mavrovouni camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on June 3, 2021.  REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis