'The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of Covid-19' António Guterres

The Guardian | 22 Feb 2021
| Mar 03, 2021

Read this article in the Guardian written by UN Secretary General António Guterres, outlining the pandemic of human rights abuses now being faced around the world, creating "enormous fragilities in our societies".

"Covid-19 has deepened preexisting divides, vulnerabilities and inequalities, and opened up new fractures, including faultlines in human rights. The pandemic has revealed the interconnectedness of our human family – and of the full spectrum of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social. When any one of these rights is under attack, others are at risk."

See also this related article 'A pandemic of abuses': human rights under attack during Covid, says UN head surrounding the suppression of free speech and human rights abuses that have risen under the pandemic.