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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12471

22 April 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 32
COUNCIL OF EUROPE / Human rights
According to Commissioner Dunja Mijatović, COVID-19 pandemic is further eroding fundamental rights in a Europe in turmoil
Strasbourg, 21/04/2020 (Agence Europe)

The Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, speaking on Tuesday at the publication of her 2019 report, evoked the image of “a Europe circling a roundabout, uncertain about its direction and the human rights obligations”.

A wandering accentuated, she stresses, by the pandemic which “is exacerbating long-standing problems and emphasising the weaknesses of Europe’s human rights protection system”.

Five of the themes addressed in this report illustrate this backlash inflicted...

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