Tag results for 'Covid-19 Articles'
Mandatory vaccination: legal, justified, effective?
Vaccine programmes being rolled out around the world have provided hope for many, but are causing concern and opposition among others. Global Insight assesses how governments and medical authorities should respond and whether compulsory vaccination is the answer.
Released on Mar 19, 2021
Access to justice: UK court backlog shows system teetering ‘on the edge’
A joint report from four criminal justice watchdogs, published in mid-January, has found significant delays plaguing access to justice in England and Wales. The inspectorates for policing, prisons, probation and prosecutions have raised ‘grave concerns’ about long-term damage to the justice system as a whole.
Released on Feb 19, 2021
Fighting modern slavery in the Covid era
Covid-19 has exacerbated the economic conditions in which modern slavery thrives. Global Insight reports on how work on solutions continues despite the global turmoil created by the pandemic.
Released on Feb 3, 2021
Access to justice: pandemic forces courts to incorporate remote technology
In the last nine months, video conferencing has become a simple fact of life for many people – with a significant impact on dispute resolution and court hearings.
Released on Jan 21, 2021
Privacy: data protection regimes evolve in midst of Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has created novel data processing activities and issues for companies worldwide to handle while still complying with data protection legislation.
Released on Dec 18, 2020
Access to justice: lawyers fight to be recognised as ‘essential’ workers in Covid-hit East Africa
The decision by authorities in some East African countries to omit lawyers from lists of ‘essential’ service workers when implementing Covid-19 containment measures has obstructed lawyers from practising and disrupted access to justice.
Released on Nov 9, 2020
Covid-19 pandemic accelerates business drive to automation
Automation – the use of technology to substitute or reduce human activity in everything from manufacturing to day-to-day business life – was happening before Covid-19. But the pandemic has accelerated the deployment of automation globally, creating benefits but also fears of worker disenfranchisement.
Released on Aug 21, 2020
Low wage and low priority
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, workers on the lowest wages have had the least protection – from the virus, from unemployment and from financial distress – despite their work being deemed ‘essential.’ Global Insight explores how governments and corporations can step up to create a better world for these workers.
Released on Aug 12, 2020
What is finance for?
The need to rebuild and renew economies after the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic ought to accelerate the finance sector’s attempts to rediscover a sense of purpose.
Released on Aug 12, 2020
Avoiding a tech-driven dystopia
From contact tracing apps to teleworking, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technologies. Global Insight explores the opportunities and challenges for individuals, businesses, governments and regulators in a tech-driven future.
Released on Aug 12, 2020
Covid-19: limited accountability for fashion brands hitting suppliers with pandemic losses
As global fashion companies saw profits threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, many pushed the impact of losses down to suppliers in countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar
Released on Jul 16, 2020
Covid-19: emergency law-making highlights crucial role of judiciary
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, governments around the world scrambled to put in place emergency legislation that would protect their citizens and prevent their health systems from becoming overwhelmed.
Released on Jul 8, 2020
Covid-19: how should in-house lawyers respond?
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause significant global disruption, with large sections of the world’s workforce now in lockdown, Lucy Trevelyan examines how in-house lawyers should be responding to the crisis and what they can do to prepare their organisations for life after Covid-19.
Released on Jun 25, 2020
The humanitarian health crisis
Migrant communities are forced to live in precarious situations compounding their vulnerability to Covid-19. International conventions should ensure they’re protected but instead they’re perilously exposed, with some countries failing to meet their obligations entirely.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
Rule of law in the time of Covid-19 - Global Insight June/July 2020
States across the world have taken drastic action in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, there is clear potential for abuse of the situation and a detrimental impact on the rule of law, as has already been seen in various countries. Speaking at the end of March, leading human rights lawyer and Director of the IBA’s Human Rights Institute, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, and IBA Director of Content, James Lewis, discussed the balance between the fundamental priorities of security and freedom.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
A state of emergency for US democracy and rule of law
As the United States enters election season in a state of Covid-induced emergency, Global Insight assesses the dangers of President Trump abusing the vast emergency powers – 123 of them – at his fingertips.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
Sport plans its comeback
The pandemic has stopped the world of sport in its tracks. With the first tentative steps to restart elite competition being taken, or considered, Global Insight assesses the wide-ranging implications.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
Practising law in the ‘new normal’
Covid-19 has radically changed the working landscape, with law firms and their clients forced to vacate office spaces. Global Insight assesses a new era of remote working and the challenges of adapting to a digital reality.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
Africa braces for Covid-19
The pandemic is yet to hit the continent as hard as many fear it will, but, as African leaders introduce special measures, threats to rule of law and human rights are a clear and present danger.
Released on Jun 10, 2020
Predicting the unpredictable: Covid-19 and its impact on the energy industry
On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern. On the same day, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) announced that it would issue ‘force majeure certificates’ to affected Chinese companies to help minimise economic losses arising from the outbreak and consequential events.
Released on Jun 1, 2020
Considerations for managing your anti-corruption compliance programme
The severity of the business disruption caused by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic varies by sector, region and country. In some companies, the business slowdown may leave compliance departments with reduced staff and workloads.
Released on May 18, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts on Serbia’s legal landscape
The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought multiple impacts on legal and judicial systems in several countries, some of which have affected transparency and could cause corruption risks, including in procurement processes. Serbia is no exception.
Released on May 18, 2020
Fast global fiscal response in a crisis
The unprecedented spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an enormous global response to help fight the virus, improve health and safety and respond to the economic impact of a worldwide lockdown.
Released on May 18, 2020
IMF Covid-19 crisis funding: an opportunity to fight corruption
A record number of over 90 countries have requested financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic and its colossal economic impact. In response, the IMF has pledged to place its US$1trn in lending capacity at the service of countries in need.
Released on May 18, 2020
Pandemic, corruption and criminal associations
A mafia-type association has no stable political orientation: its orientation changes with the changing of economic and political circumstances. By the same token, a mafia-type association invests its dirty money in the most prosperous economic fields.
Released on May 18, 2020
Anti-corruption in light of economic crisis & Covid-19 pandemic in Lebanon
Unprecedented nationwide protests have sparked in Lebanon since October 2019 in response to rapidly deteriorating standards of living, increased costs of living, and inequality prevalent in the country.
Released on May 18, 2020
Public procurement risks and the Covid-19 pandemic
Around the globe, many countries are taking measures to keep up with their growing health system’s demands to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 as much as possible.
Released on May 18, 2020
Covid-19 requires increased focus on political contributions
Financing political campaigns can always pose corruption risks in any democratic country. This is because political contributions can become mechanisms through which unethical entities and individuals seek to obtain undue benefits from political parties and candidates once they reach public office.
Released on May 18, 2020
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the French Anti-Corruption Agency
French courts have been closed since 16 March 2020 on the order of the Ministry of Justice. However, courts have continued to provide necessary services for hearings and matters related to ‘essential litigation’. All other proceedings have been suspended.
Released on May 18, 2020
Fighting corruption in times of Covid-19: look out for money laundering
Whereas awareness over corruption risks in the public and the private sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic is constant, money laundering may not be at the centre of attention. Yet, corruption and money laundering are intrinsically linked.
Released on May 18, 2020