Africa: 'An Immediate Human Rights Response to Counter the Covid-19 and the Global Recession Ahead Is an Urgent Priority,' Says UN Expert

The best response to a potential economic and social catastrophe provoked by the COVID-19 crisis is to put finance at the service of human rights and to support the less well-off through bold financial approaches, today said a UN human rights expert.

"Fiscal stimulus and social protection packages aimed directly at those least able to cope with the crisis are essential to mitigating the devastating consequences of the pandemic," said Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights. "I call on Governments to consider the introduction of an emergency universal basic income."

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