Abstract
Background: This work is a situation analysis of reported human rights abuses that have characterized the COVID-19 controls and lockdown in some countries of the world. This is as documented by reliable mass media sources, relevant international organizations and human rights non-governmental organizations between January 2020 to April 2020. Methods: A combined content analysis, critical analysis, and doctrinal method is applied in this study in line with the reproducible research process. It is a secondary-data-based situation analysis study, conducted through a qualitative research approach. Findings: The findings revealed among other things that: COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews’ enforcement by law enforcement officers contravened some peoples’ fundamental human rights within the first month. Security forces employed overt and immoderate forces to implement the orders. The lockdown and curfew enforcements were not significantly respectful of human life and human dignity. The COVID-19 emergency declarations in some countries were discriminatory against minorities and vulnerable groups in some countries. Research limitations/implications: This report is based on data from investigative journalism and opinions of the United Nations and international human rights organizations, and not on police investigations or reports. The implication of the study is that if social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes were given to the law enforcement officers implementing the COVID-19 lockdowns and or curfews, the human rights and humanitarian rights breaches witnessed would have been avoided or drastically minimized. Originality: The originality of this review is that it is the first to undertake a situation analysis of the COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews human rights abuses in some countries. The study portrayed the poor level of social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes amongst law enforcement officers, culminating in the frosty police-public relationships.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2020), seeing the alarming severity of coronavirus spread in many countries, on March 11, 2020, announced it is a global pandemic
The World Health Organization added its voice that stay-at-home measures for slowing down the pandemic must not be done in such a way as to jeopardize peoples’ human rights (WHO, 2020)
The first step was by clearly defining the search criteria and the time period during which the COVID-19 lockdowns/curfews and human rights abuses occurred, and the consequent specific research questions and scope
Summary
Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. The study portrayed the poor level of social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes amongst law enforcement officers, culminating in the frosty police-public relationships. Keywords Covid-19 Lockdown, Covid-19 Curfews, Human Rights Abuses, International Conventions on Human Rights, Social Marketing. This article is included in the Sustainable Cities gateway. This article is included in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) collection
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