The COVID-19 Human Rights Monitor (the Monitor), published online every Wednesday, covers rights risks and violations linked to the pandemic and is designed to be a key resource for legal and human rights professionals. The IBAHRI said it wanted to help ensure measures imposed to contain or prevent the spread of COVID-19 are not used to disguise disproportionate treatment or disregard citizens’ fundamental liberties.
The first edition of the Monitor covers gender-based violence and women’s health, LGBTQI+ rights, prisoners and detainees, refugee camps and asylum procedures. It highlights concerns of reported increases in domestic violence while many jurisdictions are in lockdown mode, and the lack of basic protective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in many prisons and detention centres.
View the Monitor at: www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/Bulletins/1.aspx.
