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Fighting Covid-19 while ignoring human rights is recipe for chaos

UN Secretary General António Guterres has expressed alarm that Covid-19 is “a human crisis fast becoming a human rights crisis”.

Given the impacts of the pandemic, the secretary general called for human rights to guide response and recovery, and for people and their rights to be placed “front and centre” of all efforts. 

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