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Human rights watch kenneth roth with the u. N. Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept in order to fight a threat like coronavirus. Kenneth roth welcome to conflict zone thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put a human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to enforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say
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