Supervision of Derogations in the Wake of COVID-19: a litmus test for the Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Supervision of Derogations in the Wake of COVID-19: a litmus test for the Secretary General of the Council of Europe ejiltalk.org/supervision-of-derogations-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-a-litmus-test-for-the-secretary-general-ofthe-council-of-europe/The pandemic COVID-19 has triggered a record number of derogations from the European Convention on Human Rights (the 'ECHR' or the 'Convention').By now, Albania, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Moldova, North Macedonia and Romania have notified the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (the 'Secretary General') of their derogations from the ECHR.More States may follow suit, or have already derogated from the ECHR, but