Respecting human rights in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

Who’s behind it? – Institute for Human Rights and Business (2020)

How can it help? – This paper is divided into four parts.

• Part I provides an overview of the human rights impacts of the pandemic.
• Part II outlines the importance of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in the current context.
• Part III identifies where change is needed and where good practices are being implemented. It concludes with a series of recommendations to businesses.
• Part IV looks ahead, to the extent that is possible, and reflects on the longer-term implications.

Three appendices show instructive examples from the past.