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Another Pandemic? Covid-19’s Human Rights Abuses and How Best to Respond

By Jemma Clarke From the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, states and societies have faced a vast array of challenges. It has deepened and exasperated many pre-existing inequalities, vulnerabilities and divides. Much more than just a public health emergency, it has also created what UN Secretary-General António Guterres named “a pandemic of human rightsContinue reading “Another Pandemic? Covid-19’s Human Rights Abuses and How Best to Respond“

The crossroads of controversy: Hannah Arendt’s coining of the term 'the banality of evil'?

Over fifty years ago, the philosopher Hannah Arendt witnessed the end of the trial of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the key figures behind the Final Solution. Hannah Arendt had been chosen by the New Yorker to cover the Eichmann Trial in 1961, which then evolved later into the book ‘EichmannContinue reading “The crossroads of controversy: Hannah Arendt’s coining of the term 'the banality of evil'?”