Gerard McCann

Gerard McCann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies and Head of International Programmes at St Mary's University College, a college of Queens University Belfast, UK.

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COVID-19 in the Global South

Impacts and Responses

Edited by Pádraig Carmody, Gerard McCann, Clodagh Colleran and Ciara O’Halloran

Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic and offers vital insights into how they can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socio-economic contexts worldwide.

COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact

Edited by Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues.

International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Gerard McCann and Féilim Ó hAdhmaill

The strengths, weaknesses and enforcement of concepts of international human rights receive a new social policy perspective in this insightful review of a pressing debate. Drawing on examples from around the world, it sets out the evolving role of universal rights in domestic and international policy and human welfare.