Human Rights Abuses in the Enforcement of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures: A Catalyst for Change

• Author: Kelly Shea Delvack
• Position: Independent Scholar
• Pages: 85-97

e Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law

ISSN: 2338-7602; E-ISSN: 2338-770X

http://www.ijil.org

© 2020 e Institute for Migrant Rights Press

is article is dedicated to Professor James McGoldrick who is among the casualties

of this awful virus. Special thanks to my husband, Bill, for his comments and edits

to this article. I would also like to thank the members of the Indonesian Journal of

International & Comparative Law, especially Dan Trevanion and Chris Cason, for

careful editing and feedback. All errors are my own.

human rights aBusEs in thE

EnforCEmEnt of Covid-19 loCk-

down mEasurEs

a CaTalysT for Change

Kelly Shea Delvac

Independent Scholar

E-mail: kellysheadelvac@gmail.com

COVID-19 ravaged the world for most of 2020. Along with the destruction from

the virus itself, much of the world’s population has been subjected to lock-down

measures oen resulting in human rights violations due to overzealous police

enforcement. e U.N. Security Council is in a unique position to give global

guidance to this issue through a resolution. is Article gives recommendations

for what a resolution should include and suggests that a resolution made to ad-

dress COVID-19 policing might be the catalyst needed to help the developing

world reform their criminal justice systems long-term.

Keywords: Pandemic, Global Governance, United Nations, International Legal Mech-

anism.