Airstrikes on hospitals. Targeting medical personnel. Cutting off water supplies. Respect for IHL rules is essential in #COVID19 crisis. Oona Hathaway, Mark Stevens, & Preston Jordan Lim outline obligations in a pandemic. #COVID19InternationalLaw justsecurity.org/73316/covid-19…

Intl. law protects humanitarian personnel, equipment, & access in conflict zones. How do these obligations play out during a pandemic? Oona Hathaway, Preston Jordan Lim & Mark Stevens explain in the next installment of our #COVID19InternationalLaw series. justsecurity.org/73336/covid-19…

It's helpful to take a step back from the day-to-day coverage of the pandemic and reflect on governments' human rights law duties, which are too often overlooked. The next section of our series tackles a few of the most fundamental rights, beginning with the right to life.

Thinking at the intersection of human rights law, health, and COVID-19: see Oona Hathaway, Mark Stevens, and Preston Jordan Lim in Just Security on how pandemic policy failures might implicate states' international law obligations. justsecurity.org/73447/covid-19…

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Governments can't sacrifice civil and political rights as they try to get the pandemic under control. I'm proud to have worked on this piece to make that clear.

I'm excited to point out int. refugee law's importance for governments' COVID-19 responses with Oona Hathaway and Preston Jordan Lim. Our first piece on this topic tackles the principle of non-refoulement.

In their latest piece for Just Security, Professor Oona Hathaway and students Mark Stevens ’21 and Preston Lim ’21 write that the pandemic has been “used by governments around the world to roll back key protections guaranteed under international law.” justsecurity.org/73593/covid-19…

Governments' international law duties to refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants in their care or custody still apply in a pandemic: States must prevent, treat and control COVID-19 by providing adequate health services/supplies and releasing individuals from detention.

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The key question now is whether congressional Democrats facing purple or red electorates learned the lesson of 2010: You win reelection by delivering real benefits to people fast, not by shrinking and slowing bills that would improve lives in a performance of moderation.

Shocking scenes in Washington, D.C. The outcome of this democratic election must be respected.

I couldn't be more excited to join the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum as a 2021 Fellow! I'm looking forward to thinking through big global challenges with a talented team of problem solvers.