Human Rights Violations During COVID-19

Around the world, COVID-19 has exacerbated systematic flaws in many countries, and as if that wasn't enough, leaders are politicizing this virus to commit human rights violations. But this virus will be the ultimate test for many nations: for how we mitigate risks and globally cooperate. In no particular order, these are some things to keep your eyes on:


The United States

  1. Labor Migrants

  2. International Students

  3. Immigration

  4. Black Lives Matter

  5. Foster Care System (children)

  6. Food Systems

  7. Front-line Workers

  8. Evictions and Housing

  9. Health Care

  10. Voting Access

  11. Data on Covid-19

  12. Prison conditions

  13. Pay day loans

Brazil

  1. Protection for Indigenous Communities

  2. Police Violence

  3. Reproductive Rights

  4. Blocking social distancing measures

  5. Withholding data

  6. Prisons

Zimbabwe

  1. Water & Sanitation

  2. Civil Liberties under Mugabe

  3. Pathway to food amidst lock down

  4. Journalists & Aid

  5. Arrests

Turkey

  1. Targeting doctors

  2. Media

  3. Civil Society

  4. Prison conditions

  5. Expression

  6. Refugees

  7. Political prisoners

Poland

  1. Illegal elections

  2. Repression on sexual and reproductive rights

  3. “State of Emergency”

China

  1. Misinformation

  2. Discrimination against Africans

  3. Arbitrary detention & freedom of speech

  4. Social media

  5. Mass Detention (that has been going on before the pandemic even began)

Mexico

  1. Prison conditions

  2. Limitation to rights and liberties

  3. Police brutality

Myanmar

  1. Arrests

  2. Internet Bans

  3. Politicization prevention

  4. Refugee Rights

Bangladesh

  1. Mass arrests

  2. Free speech

  3. Press

Bolivia

  1. Free expression

  2. Politicization

Cambodia

  1. Wrongful arrests

  2. Debt collection, land sales

  3. “Emergency Powers”

Philippines

  1. Anti- Terrorism bill

  2. “Drug war” tactics

India

  1. Hate and corruption

  2. Lock-down and it’s relation to low-income citizens (transportation access, food, etc)

  3. Migrant Workers

  4. Kashmiris’

Ethiopia

  1. Free Speech

  2. Security Forces

  3. “Emergency declaration”

Venezuela

  1. Water & health care

  2. Migrants

  3. Journalism/free speech

Egypt

  1. Prisons

  2. Politicizing Covid

  3. Arrests

  4. Misinformation

South Sudan

  1. Inter communal violence

  2. Health system

Nigeria

  1. Response

  2. Journalists

  3. Food/Shelter

  4. Civic Space

Lebanon

  1. Refugees and Discrimination

  2. Food and Poverty

  3. Response

  4. Migrant domestic workers

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