Author: Biao He

On 23 May Wuhan University Institute for Human Rights Studies, China, hosted the webinar on the Rights Protection of Vulnerable Groups in the Pandemic, as a part of the Global Epidemic Prevention & Control and Human Rights Protection Conference Series. Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy of Oslo Metropolitan University and Wuhan East-lake Institute for Social Advancement (our partner institute for the project “Disability Resilience”) co-organized this event. Professor Rune Halvorsen from OsloMet was invited to make the keynote speech Social Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe – How to Reduce Risk of Poverty and Social Exclusion at the beginning of the webinar and shared his observations on how the Covid-19 Pandemic affects persons in precautious positions from the medical and social perspective and what and how social interventions would be required to reduce the risks in the pandemic that the vulnerable groups would take.