How Covid 19 helped violate Human Rights

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by Ryan Akerley0 views·Updated May 10, 2022
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  1. Hello everybody.
  2. I'm Ryan a curly And this is my presentation
  3. on how Covid 19 helped governments violate human rights.
  4. Mhm
  5. COVID-19 gave government's emergency powers in
  6. these emergency powers temporarily enhance executive power
  7. to move things faster in crisis.
  8. Problem with emergency powers is there needs to be
  9. provisions to protect everyone from an abuse of power.
  10. Which is exactly what happened
  11. because governments had the ability to do anything to stop the outbreak of Covid.
  12. It eventually led to human rights being violated around the world.
  13. Mhm
  14. My state actor is world governments and their goal the reason
  15. they were given the emergency power was to end the pandemic.
  16. However, they ended up using their powers for things such as in China.
  17. Over 17,000 people were investigated for fabricating false COVID information
  18. in Hong Kong
  19. used 19 used Covid 19 restrictions to ban pro democracy gatherings
  20. and Hungary uses emergency powers to make it legal to
  21. prosecute up to five years for spreading misinformation about Covid
  22. and don't forget shutting down school and work for months.
  23. These are violations of human rights such as freedom of opinion and expression,
  24. the right to work and education and the right to privacy.
  25. A study done by the Human Rights Watch says that
  26. 83 governments around the world use COVID to limit free speech
  27. and suppress protests.
  28. Okay,
  29. a non state actor is the general population
  30. and the goal of the people was to survive the pandemic.
  31. However,
  32. COVID pushed 124 million people under the poverty line
  33. which is living on less than $2 a day
  34. governments did this to their own people by taking away their rights to work.
  35. They were very unclear with what the plans were for Covid and why everyone
  36. was being locked down and no one knew when it was going to end.
  37. This is when people started to ask questions but started to get silent.
  38. Such as people like dr lee wen li yang who tried to warn everyone
  39. months before the outbreak how serious Covid was
  40. but then was arrested by the Chinese government.
  41. There are also bans on gatherings outside with multiple people so no one was
  42. allowed to go out and protest where they could be arrested as well.
  43. These are more violations of the right to freedom
  44. of expression and speech and the right to protest.
  45. This wasn't the only case and people got quiet and scared
  46. when this started because they didn't want to be arrested.
  47. Realism says the governments are inherently motivated by their own self interests
  48. and the conflicts is a natural product of human nature.
  49. This can be used to explain why governments immediately
  50. started to have travel restrictions and lockdown borders,
  51. realism was good for Covid because it
  52. accurately predicted that states would act selfishly.
  53. However,
  54. realism failed during Covid because it says States are the primary actors.
  55. But during Covid, the world,
  56. the World Health Organization
  57. kind of took over and underscored state's ability to
  58. control events by releasing their own protocols for Covid
  59. and most of the time didn't align with the state's
  60. realism strength in this situation is explaining
  61. the risk rather than offering solutions.
  62. My analysis, the government's abused the power they were given
  63. by trying to control too much and they ended up violating their people's rights.
  64. There's no tension between governments and citizens
  65. because by over extending their power,
  66. they made it so people don't trust them anymore and won't.
  67. And maybe we'll listen if something like this happens again.
  68. And also showed us what we need to change and how we can be better prepared.
  69. Mhm.
  70. One of my recommendations is that we
  71. need to better understand inter species diseases,
  72. understanding how in which diseases jump from animals to humans
  73. can help us better prepare for the next one.
  74. Next is to have an actual plan for this.
  75. If it were to happen again and have it be very clear and understandable.
  76. So everyone knows what to do.
  77. And last is to have global cooperation and unity.
  78. The world needs to work together
  79. next time so that we can deal with it as efficiently and quickly as possible.
  80. Thank you.
  81. There are a fair