COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACT ON PERSONS LIVING IN POVERTY: THE CASE OF REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN AFRICA
Keywords:
Global health crisis; refugees; internally displaced persons; human rights and freedoms; liberticidal mechanismsAbstract
In response to the current global health crisis, state-sponsored repressive measures are more damaging to people who, in normal times, are already facing survival difficulties, such as poor people. This article places particular concern on the protection of the rights of refugees and internally displaced populations in some African host countries during this period of Covid-19. This analysis shows that the role played by governments and some humanitarian agencies in ensuring their survival which has become difficult due to the existence of the liberticidal mechanisms, helps to minimise the harmful impact that the implementation of the measures places on the exercise of rights and freedoms by these vulnerable people, and addresses the challenges that compromise the effectiveness and the efficacy of their guarantee.