Covid19 / Human Rights in Times of Pandemic
In the last months many of our human rights (the right to not be detained, the right to family life, to freedom of religion, etc) have been curtailed to help stop the spread of Covid-19. “International human rights law permits such limitations for legitimate reasons, such as the protection of lives of others,” explains in this video Roger O’Keefe, professor of International Law at Bocconi. “And where governments have acted in good faith to stop the spread of Covid-19, the measures taken can be justified as such. One state that will however have difficulties is Hungary, which has clearly abused the use of decrees to overturn some rights that cannot be related to the Coronavirus emergency.”