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Affirming Radical Equality in the Context of COVID-19: Human Rights of Older
People and People with Disabilities
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Akerkar S
J Hum Rights Pract
2020[Oct]; ? (?): ? PMIDC7665558
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This paper discusses the impact of COVID-19 on older people and people with
disabilities. It draws attention to the violations of their human rights in the
context of COVID-19 which in turn reveal the hierarchical social order of our
society. Although statistics show higher deaths of older people in regard to
COVID-19, these numbers co-exist with rampant discrimination towards these groups
with underlying messaging that their lives are dispensable. The paper highlights
violations at different levels?discursive, ethical, and everyday?and shows how
they are underpinned by ageism and disablism which stereotype older people and
people with disabilities with prejudicial messaging and actions by states and
societal actors. At the same time, the paper also highlights the value of human
rights discourses and instruments which are mobilized by the disability movement
and groups upholding the rights of older people, to question these rights
infringements in the context of COVID-19. The politics of these groups which call
for principled equality and inclusion of older people and people with
disabilities in times of COVID-19 exhibit a much-needed disruption of our social
order, an undertaking that needs to be continued in COVID-19 times and after.
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