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Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mitigation Dynamics and their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civil Liberties (en Inglés)
Munyaradzi Mawere
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Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri
(Ilustrado por)
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James Hlongwana
(Ilustrado por)
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Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mitigation Dynamics and their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civil Liberties (en Inglés) - Duri, Fidelis Peter Thomas ; Hlongwana, James ; Mawere, Munyaradzi
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This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle increasingly came under close scrutiny. In many African countries, there were concerns about Covid-19 containment measures being enforced brutally by state security operatives such as the army, the police and the intelligence officers. Considerable debate also arose on whether the infringements that took place in an effort to thwart the pandemic were justifiable on health and moral grounds. The book makes an important claim that the fight against Covid-19 was marred by the abuse of power by many ruling elites who weaponised and repurposed pandemic curtailment provisions to taper democratic space by solidifying autocracy through muzzling political opponents, gagging the press and instituting various socio-political control mechanisms beyond public health concerns. In addition, cases abound of Covid-19 containment protocols being instrumentalised to subvert electoral processes, scuttle popular protests and extinguish opposition political activity. Undoubtedly, this book illustrates that the global struggle against Covid-19 was also very much a war for the respect of basic freedoms, human rights and civil liberties, thereby highlighting the need to establish a sustainable interaction between pandemic dynamics and human rights. The book is for students and practitioners across fields, but most especially in history, law, political science, development studies, philosophy, social anthropology and sociology.
