Mandatory vaccination in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: shall we either introduce or cancel the requirement?

Authors

Keywords:

right to personal integrity, freedom of conscience and religion, right to respect for family life, mandatory vaccination, pandemic, COVID-19, ECHR practice

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of restricting human rights and freedoms when introducing mandatory vaccination from COVID-19, analyses the arguments for and against the justification for granting the right to refuse vaccination and judicial practice on this issue in a comparative perspective.

Author Biography

  • Elena N. Markova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia

    PhD (law); assistant at the department of constitutional and municipal law, faculty of law

References

  1. Markova EN. The right to refuse from obligatory vaccination on religious grounds: pro et contra. Gosudarstvennaya vlast’ i mestnoe samoupravlenie. 2019;2:3–9. Russian.
  2. Puppinck G. Compulsory vaccination: the Grand Chamber of the ECHR will decide [Internet; cited 2020 July 15]. Available from: https://eclj.org/conscientious-objection/echr/vaccination-obligatoire--la-cedh-va-se-prononcer-en-grande-chambre.
  3. Markova EN. Conscientious objection (refusal from the performance of legal liability on the grounds of consciousness and religious beliefs): evaluation criteria and the protection of individual beliefs. Konstitutsionnoe i munitsipal’noe pravo. 2020;3:33–45. Russian.

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Published

2020-10-27

Issue

No. 3 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law

Section

Constitutional Law and Administrative Law

How to Cite

[1]
Markova, E.N. 2020. Mandatory vaccination in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: shall we either introduce or cancel the requirement?. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law. 3 (Oct. 2020), 38–45.