Protecting human rights in post Covid-19 crisis: with special reference to digital rights

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't just a health issue. Due to COVID-19, the day-to-day life of people changed completely from what it was before. As the Coronavirus continues to spread around the world, governments have imposed regulations on the movement of people, the efficiency of services, and physical distance. In this context, technology affects the daily lives of citizens and ensures that they have access to health services, access to information and communication with competent authorities. Accordingly, during the COVID-19 period, the work of Governments and National institutions, Educational institutions, International organizations and other activists has been effectively carried out through technology. The world has become more digitized than ever before. The digital technology plays an important role in the post COVID-19 world. The COVID-19 crisis underscores the importance of digital transformation and digitally effective digital governance in every country. It‘s clear that the situation caused by the Coronavirus epidemic has already accelerated the pace of digital transformation. However, the rapid and long-term use of digital technologies impact on human rights and their adherence to the principles of transparency and accountability. The main objectives of this study are to explore main ways of digitalization, to identify the human rights associated with the digitalization and to explain the ways of protecting human rights in post COVID-19 period. The methodology followed in the study is qualitative in nature while the research is entirely based on secondary sources of data like books, journal articles, reports and documents. A descriptive analysis method is used by the researcher. The findings of the study determine that the digital rights of the people are affected in post COVID-19. On the principle of human rights, it‘s important to protect the digital rights of people for a universal approach to technology, data security, transparency and discrimination.