Impact of COVID-19 on Human Rights
Levan Meskhoradze · Law and World · 2022
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a coronavirus pandemic. The economy stopped, the lives of billions of people changed. As a result of pandemic, a number of constitutional rights have been restricted. Restrictions imposed during the state of emergency affected public life and threatened the implementation of international human rights instruments at the national level. Number of States declared state of emergency to tackle with pandemic. Herewith, a few states refrained from doing so. The foregoing article reviews the impact of COVID-19 on the rights and freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, relevant state practice of derogating from obligations under the Convention, statistical data and the supervisory role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against abuse of the derogation mechanism.