State of emergency
A state of emergency is when a government is able to put through policies that it would normally not be able to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare a state of emergency during a natural disaster, violent protests, medical pandemic or epidemic or other biosecurity risk.[1]
States of emergency can also be used as a reason for ending certain rights and freedoms given under a country's constitution or basic law, sometimes through martial law.[2]
References
- Agamben, Giorgio (2005). State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00925-4.. Excerpt online: "A Brief History of the State of Exception".
- Hussein, Nassar (2003). The Jurisprudence of Emergency. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Rooney, Bryan. 2019. "E Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset." Research & Politics
Other websites
- United Nations Human Rights Committee, General Comment 29, States of Emergency (article 4), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.11 (2001)
- The protection of human rights in emergency situations, PACE report (2009)
- Opinion on the protection of human rights in emergency situations, Venice Commission (2006)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.