As every year, Human Rights Day takes place on 10 December. This day commemorates the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This year, 2021, the theme of Human Rights Day is "EQUALITY - Reducing...
It is often repeated that in this pandemic storm we have to face the same rough sea but are on different boats. If this is true, it means that people also experience the pandemic and government-instated regulations differently. This is certainly the case for people...
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been a challenging period for many of us. But what has its impact on our mental health really been like? In the first few months of the crisis there were predictions that the pandemic would create a ‘tsunami’ of mental...
Population is exhausted and shows diminished trust in government, but also a high willingness to vaccinate On January 27, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 infection was registered in Germany. Since then, Germans have lived through three pandemic waves with approximately 4 million infected, and nearly...
With the COVID-19 outbreak, humanity had to adapt to a new era. New laws, rules and measures have been adopted for a fast and effective response towards the worldwide and multisectoral impact of the pandemic. However, even though all stakeholders have been engaged in assessing...
When the first Corona cases occurred on the 25th of February 2020, alarm bells rang in the republic of Austria – and the government quickly contacted the Austrian Red Cross for help and support in managing the crisis. Austrian Red Cross is a big, nationwide...
Information seeking patterns may help to explain higher death tolls in COVID-19 in immigration dense areas in Sweden. Information gaps widens with language problems and weak identification with the majority society. During the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, news media around the world focused...
Pandemics are nothing new, as Viktoria Adler and Diotima Bertel reminded us in this article. False and misleading information didn’t wait for the 21st century either. Long before we started talking about “fake news”, Daniel Defoe noted in his 1722 Journal of the Plague Year,...
From the history of pandemics, we inherit important lessons for today's society struggling to cope with COVID-19. First, it confirms that global pandemics can have grave and potentially permanent unequal economic consequences. The local economic impact of a pandemic depends, not only on the quality...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. In May 2020, as Europe was coming out of the initial shock and acknowledging the impact of the new situation, the European Commission launched a funding call for research projects investigating the behavioural,...
