Summary:
- There is an emerging awareness that governments must strike a fair balance between protecting and promoting public health on one side and individual human rights on the other.
- Human rights could smoothly be integrated into the COVID-19 measures’ decision process.
- Such integration will ask for human rights awareness, knowledge and accessibility.
- Governments are responsible for fulfilling human rights, and thus also for introducing the right tools for decision-makers and implementers.
- An easy to use human rights assessment as pre-sented in this article could be an integral part of introducing and scaling back COVID-19 measures.