Limits on the fundamental human rights and liberties during the Covid-19 pandemic – vaccination requirements for those working in the health services in Italy and Hungary Cover Image

Limitarea drepturilor și libertăților fundamentale ale omului în pandemia Covid-19 – obligativitate vaccinării angajaților din serviciile de sănătate, cazurile Italiei și Ungariei
Limits on the fundamental human rights and liberties during the Covid-19 pandemic – vaccination requirements for those working in the health services in Italy and Hungary

Author(s): Csaba Ferenc Asztalos
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Governance, Health and medicine and law, EU-Legislation
Published by: Centrul de Studii Internationale
Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic; misinformation; discrimination; right balance; European Convention on Human Rights; ECtHR;

Summary/Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has had a number of effects on human rights and fundamental freedoms, measures to prevent and combat the epidemic have involved and include restrictions on freedom of movement, restrictions or even a ban on freedom of assembly, restrictions of the right to association, restrictions of the right to private life, restrictions of the right to work, the right to education.Limiting fundamental rights and freedoms during Covid-19 pandemic affects, more than ever, the relationship between science and law, the relationship between knowledge, correct information, as democratic values ​​and its opposite: misinformation. The present analysis aims to present the legal tests by which constitutional judges from different states of the European Union have ruled on measures taken by states to limit and combat the Covid-19 pandemic, namely on the right balance, on reconciliation between fundamental human rights and freedoms.

  • Issue Year: 17/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 9-25
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian