Legal Impediments on Migrants' Right to Health and Pandemic Response under the Law of the Council of Europe.

The paper primarily examines the interpretation of the right to health protection of migrants in health pandemics under the law of the Council of Europe (CoE). The study analyses the CoE's right to health legal framework, vis-à-vis pandemic response. The paper focuses on the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Social Charter (ESC), which are the two most important human rights treaties adopted by the CoE under the authority of the European Council and their interpretations by their monitoring bodies. It finds that there exist legal impediments to migrants' right to health under the law of the CoE. The paper asserts that these legal impediments may negatively impact pandemic response and offers recommendations to address them.