Emerging Human Rights Issues
Contemporary emerging human rights issues
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the health of many nations and the economies across the globe, changing the human rights landscape. The human rights world is battling with other emerging issues which affect the rights, freedoms and wellbeing of many including the most vulnerable people such as the poor, persons with disabilities, LGBTI persons, elderly, women and children, making their lives more complex.
Some of these emerging human rights issues are:
- Right to Health in the context of a global pandemic
- Climate change and displacement
- Human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Right to a healthy and sustainable environment
- Business, human rights and corruption
- Human Trafficking
- Human rights and technology
- Spread of Misinformation
- Migration
- Urbanisation
- Gender equality
