Abstract

This chapter analyzes international organizations' discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO "called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action."' UNESCO called for protecting human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the WHO's masculinist approach to COVID-19 (which emphasizes taking aggressive action) as well as other approaches that focus on the struggle for protecting human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, neglect the approaches that emphasize the role of care and solidarity during the pandemic. Countries which emphasized the role of care in fighting against the pandemic (for instance, Vietnam) gave a successful social and political response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Therefore, this approach should be emphasized by the international organizations.