COVID-19 and its Impact on Human Right Issues. A Brief Commentary

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Essay aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Völkerrecht und Menschenrechte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This commentary deals with the impact of COVID-19 on human rights issues. As various restrictions and emergency declarations are made following outbreak of novel COVID-19s pandemic, several human rights issues are also exposed - both on national and international levels. Some people suggest that as states adopts broad measures to address this public health crisis, they tend to violate major basic rights of individuals. The argument is that, while both national and international laws may permit some limited restrictions and state of emergency under specified circumstances, there are excesses found in current approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. To many, these represent global human right crises.

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