Human Rights Crisis UK. Social Sciences Research Paper

Human Rights Crisis UK
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Introduction
The COVID-19 is an infectious disease identified as a new component from the family of Coronaviruses that causes respiratory infections. The infection from COVID-19 is deadly since there is still no specific treatment for the diseases other than just the management of the symptoms. The rate of death from COVID-19 has continued to rise at an alarming rate since mid-March 2020 to-date. Most of the countries have adopted the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights that guarantees people the highest possible attainable standard of physical as well as mental health. In this case, the governments are under obligation to provide effective steps in the prevention, treatment as well as control of epidemic, endemic, occupational as well as other diseases. The human right to health provides that the various health facilities, their goods, and services should be available to all in sufficient quantity, accessible to all without any hint of discrimination and at the same time affordable to everybody all over the globe. The provision also encompasses the fact that these medical services should be acceptable, meaningful, and offered in line with medical ethics that are culturally appropriate. They should also comply with the scientific appropriation and be of good quality in its entirety.[European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. . Guidelines for the use of non-pharmaceutical measures to delay and mitigate the impact of 2019-nCoV. ECDC: Stockholm; 2020.]
Perception of disorder
The Human Rights Committee general perceptions on the states of emergency as well as freedom of movement also reflected by the Siracusa Principles that was adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in the year 1984, provides elaborate and authoritative guidelines on how governments should respond to restrictions on human rights for public health reasons or any other national emergency. In this case, any measure undertaken in the quest to protect the human population that limits the population’s rights and freedom must be done under the law that is necessary and proportionate. For instance, the cases on states of emergency require that they are provided on a limited duration. On the same note, the curtailment of rights needs to consider the extent of the disproportionate impact on specified populations. The governments are under obligation in line with the international human rights law to protect the rights as well as freedom of expression that includes the right to seek and be provided with appropriate information of all kinds regardless of the challenges at hand. The various permissible restrictions that pertain to freedom of expression as pertains to public health should not at any point jeopardize the rights to self.[Kalin, Walter. "The human rights dimension of natural or human-made disasters." German YB Int'l L. 55 (2012): 119.] [Alemanno, Alberto. "The European Response to COVID19. From Regulatory Emulation to Regulatory Coordination." European Journal of Risk Regulation (2020): 1-12.]
The governments are accountable as well as responsible for providing appropriate and necessary information for the...