Covid-19 and Human Rights Poverty, discrimination and human rights violation all are global challenges. On top of these Covid-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented crisis worldwide. It has adversely affected human rights including health, employment and human disaster. It has created huge challenges for ensuring economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights. The developed countries where better health services are available also struggled during this pandemic. the whole world. Moreover, violence against women (VAW) has been a big challenge for the world. It has been noticed that during Covid-19 pandemic VAW has increased so rapidly that it is termed as a ‘Shadow pandemic’. Global crises caused by the COVID-19 pandamic, since early 2020, has risked the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and as a consequence, the SDGs implementation process could be slowed down or even reversed. Covid-19 has created a challenge for the education system worldwide. Around- six hundred sixteen million (616,000,000) children suffered due to partial or full shut down of schools. Not only that, the children are still being deprived of receiving education which may further increase discrimination and it is seen that their extracurricular activities are already being hampered. SDG’s or Agenda 2030 was adopted in 2015 by all the UN Member States with the aim of implementing clusters of programs including leaving no one behind. Nonetheless, the pandemic has increased poverty and discrimination. Paris based world inequality lab has mentioned in their world Inequality Report 2022 that in recent time economic discrimination has increased and it has reached at its peak during pandemic. Despite lots of discernable improvements, gender-based discrimination remains not only a challenge for Bangladesh, but also for The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken timely and necessary steps during the crisis. National Human Rights Commission Annual Report 2021 19

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