Shahid Beheshti University Legal Research Quarterly 1024-0772 25 Law & covid-19 vol.2 2022 06 07 International Responsibility of States in Humanitarian Assistance: Emphasizing the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic International Responsibility of States in Humanitarian Assistance: Emphasizing the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic 207 235 102516 10.29252/jlr.2022.226894.2184 FA Sattar Azizi Law, Faculty of Humanities,Bu-Ali Sina University,Hamedan,Iran Journal Article 2022 02 20 The outbreak of coronavirus, which first started in Wuhan province of<br />China and infected the whole world in less than eleven weeks, has been one<br />of the most important challenges to human health and safety since World<br />War II. Although the main task of ensuring the health and minimum<br />livelihood of human life is the responsibility of state and the place of human<br />habitation, the various economic, social and health effects of the coronavirus<br />on human life necessitate humanitarian assistance from all states. The main<br />question of this article is whether there is a customary obligation for states to<br />help each other in combating the spread of the coronavirus and its economic,<br />health and social consequences. The author's hypothesis is that there is a<br />customary obligation for affluent states to assist vulnerable states in<br />combating the Quaid-19 virus. In particular, the inability and failure of a<br />state to fight the virus will lead to its proliferation and spread to neighboring<br />states and beyond, and it is in the interest of all states not to limit the fight<br />against the virus to their national and internal borders. The outbreak of coronavirus, which first started in Wuhan province of<br />China and infected the whole world in less than eleven weeks, has been one<br />of the most important challenges to human health and safety since World<br />War II. Although the main task of ensuring the health and minimum<br />livelihood of human life is the responsibility of state and the place of human<br />habitation, the various economic, social and health effects of the coronavirus<br />on human life necessitate humanitarian assistance from all states. The main<br />question of this article is whether there is a customary obligation for states to<br />help each other in combating the spread of the coronavirus and its economic,<br />health and social consequences. The author's hypothesis is that there is a<br />customary obligation for affluent states to assist vulnerable states in<br />combating the Quaid-19 virus. In particular, the inability and failure of a<br />state to fight the virus will lead to its proliferation and spread to neighboring<br />states and beyond, and it is in the interest of all states not to limit the fight<br />against the virus to their national and internal borders. https://lawresearchmagazine.sbu.ac.ir/article_102516_2271b880f25543f5240448ac2d0e60a2.pdf