{"id":111798,"date":"2021-04-08T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/08\/hidden-human-rights-crises-threaten-post-covid-global-security-amnesty"},"modified":"2021-04-08T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:00:05","slug":"hidden-human-rights-crises-threaten-post-covid-global-security-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/08\/hidden-human-rights-crises-threaten-post-covid-global-security-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden human rights crises threaten post-Covid global security \u2013 Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Crises will multiply\u2019 if escalating repression by governments under pretext of pandemic ignored, says secretary general<br><\/p><p>Neglected human rights crises around the world have the potential to undermine already precarious global security as governments continue to use Covid as a cover to push authoritarian agendas, Amnesty International has warned.<\/p><p>The organisation said ignoring escalating hotspots for human rights violations and allowing states to perpetrate abuses with impunity could jeopardise efforts to rebuild after the pandemic.<\/p><p><\/p><p>A year on from the start of the world\u2019s biggest health crisis, we now face a human rights pandemic. Covid-19 has exposed the inequalities and fragilities of health and political systems and allowed authoritarian regimes to impose drastic curbs on rights and freedoms, using the virus as a pretext for restricting free speech and stifling dissent.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/04\/for-sri-lankan-reporters-the-ghosts-of-violence-and-intimidation-loom-again\">For Sri Lankan reporters, the ghosts of violence and intimidation loom again<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/08\/hidden-human-rights-crises-threaten-post-covid-global-security-amnesty\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/08\/hidden-human-rights-crises-threaten-post-covid-global-security-amnesty\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Crises will multiply\u2019 if escalating repression by governments under pretext of pandemic ignored, says secretary generalNeglected human rights crises around the world have the potential to undermine already precarious global security as governments con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,1168,1207,1333,6,1336,1258,748,796,2178,9205,3113,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111799,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111798\/revisions\/111799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}