Effects of COVID-19 on international organizations, humanitarian action, and human rights

Abstract This special collection explores how responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the provision of humanitarian aid and the protection of human rights. The aim is to investigate how international governmental organizations (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have dealt with the crippling consequences of the pandemic in the social and economic spheres, intending to address them but also to generate new strategies and approaches to increase resilience for the future. The significance and the necessity of the topics presented in this issue are straightforward: it is important to address COVID-19 in its manifold dimensions, that is, the responses to it, its direct consequences, and its secondary ramifications that are still understudied in academic literature.