HUMAN RIGHTS
Dr. Tanja
Porčnik
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights
In times of great national uncertainty, the government is called upon to act, and the present pandemic is no exception. In responding to the COVID-19 pandemic exigencies, governments around the world have taken vast and unparalleled decisions to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus and protect lives. Indisputably, many of those measures have directly or indirectly curtailed our human rights and freedoms.