The right to life is embodied in international, domestic and regional documents. It protects the right of an individual to be free from arbitrary deprivation of life. However, the term 'arbitrary' ensures us that the right to life is not absolute and can be derogated from.

This pandemic has been quite a danger to human security. Beyond the obvious death toll and long-term health consequences, the pandemic itself threatens the very structure of most people's day-to-day lives.

Pandemics are as old as humanity, but while the increasing likelihood of future natural pandemics is certainly alarming, it is not the worst-case scenario; a natural pathogen could kill tens or hundreds of millions, a designed or adapted one could threaten civilization collapse, ushering in an engineered apocalypse.

3 May 2021 Event One: Space, Remote Medicine and Health – 18:00 UK time (GMT+1), 18 May 2021 Tickets available here University College London and the Human Security Centre are teaming up to present an online events series focusing on ...

HSC – UCL Space and Health events series 12 April 2021 Today we mark International Human Spaceflight Day – this year being the 60th Anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin embarking on the first crewed spaceflight in Vostok 1 on 12 ...

With over 190 countries signed up, the wait for COVAX vaccinations is likely to be long, and the scheme will only provide doses for up to a fifth of receiving countries’ populations. On the borders of Europe, this process has been fraught with geopolitics, centring in large part around the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine, as the complementary and opposing examples of Belarus and Ukraine demonstrate.

While there are obvious reasons that cause cybersecurity problems in the healthcare industry to be particularly burdensome during a pandemic, organizations should realize the importance of cybersecurity and lead the charge from within.