Improving human rights through empowering citizens and rebuilding trust across Europe
Improving human rights through empowering citizens and rebuilding trust across Europe

Author(s): Chloé Bernadaux
Subject(s): Politics, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Welfare systems, Health and medicine and law, EU-Legislation
Published by: IFIMES - International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies
Keywords: Europe; human rights; improvement; COVID-19;
Summary/Abstract: “2020 has been a disastrous year for human rights in Europe,” commented Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, at a speech in front of the Council of Europe at the end of last year. In an unprecedented fashion, the COVID-19 pandemic (C-19) has brought to fore a tremendous increase in human rights violations in 2020 throughout the world. According to Reporters Without Borders’ tracker 19 mapping human rights cases of abuse worldwide, Europe is no exception to the rule. While it contains one of the most advanced human rights protection systems globally, the old continent has seen itself prey to governmental and media attempts to erode democracy and human rights.

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