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Government , Health Services Accessibility , Armed Conflicts , Human Rights , Humans , Libya , Refugees/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health emergency that requires immediate, effective action by governments to protect the health and basic human rights of everyone's life. Refugees and migrants are potentially at increased risk because they typically live in overcrowded conditions often without access to basic sanitation. Since the beginning of the official lockdown for Covid-19, the medico-legal assessment of physical violence related to obtaining status or other forms of human protection has been frozen.
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COVID-19/prevention & control , Health Services Accessibility , Human Rights , Refugees/legislation & jurisprudence , Transients and Migrants/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , JurisprudenceABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting some important sources of health disparities that assail our society's most vulnerable people, particularly undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. The focus of this commentary is on uncovering those sources of health disparities and making a call for action. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).