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Protecting human rights during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a global human rights challenge. It has a significant impact not only on health care systems, but also on the full, inclusive, and transparent functioning of the UN and its human rights mechanisms. This page presents ISHR's responses and action to support human rights defenders, and strengthen the UN human rights system in face of this global crisis.

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Rising authoritarianism. An accelerating climate crisis. Continuing conflicts characterised by war crimes and crimes against humanity. It’s difficult to face 2025 with anything other than a sense of fear, inevitability and despair. Yet these are precisely the understandable impulses we must resist!