Raju, E;
Dutta, A;
Ayeb-Karlsson, S;
(2021)
COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind?
Progress in Disaster Science
, 10
, Article 100163. 10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100163.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities. People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some of the most affected groups in the Global South. Given the current living conditions of migrants, the WHO guidelines on how to prevent COVID-19 (such as handwashing, physical distancing and working from home) are challenging to nearly impossible in informal settlements. We use the case of India to highlight the challenges of migrants and urban slum dwellers during the COVID-19 response, and to provide human rights-based recommendations for immediate action to safeguard these vulnerable populations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100163 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, India, Informal settlements, Migrants, Public health, Slum wellbeing, Human rights, Vulnerability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141496 |
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