RESEARCH Ignoring the human rights values, principles and standards will disrupt the achievement of the SDGs. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic must be used as momentum to evaluate and reorganize policy and governance that is related to health and development in general. The SDGs serve as a comprehensive framework to address the issues at stake, and with a human rights-based approach to SDG planning and implementation the Covid-19 impacts will be addressed. This includes various aspects, from infrastructure, legal issues, human resources, etc. – and involves initiating cooperation between the government and nongovernment agencies. Inequality in the distribution of medical and healthcare personnel is also a significant issue in the mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The limited number of medical and health workers who are unevenly distributed throughout the regions, and the need to focus health services on COVID-19 response and mitigation, carries with it a risk of disrupting non-COVID-19 related health services. Citizens’ right to health is very likely to be neglected. Beside health issues, there are several others which also deserve further attention. The first is related to something crucial in stimulating initiatives, solidarity, and citizen participation in the mitigation efforts of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, information. In Tata Kelola Penanggulangan COVID-19 dalam Perspektif HAM, Komnas HAM RI noted how nontransparent, unqualified, and out-of-sync information between the central and regional governments had neglected citizens' rights to information. Moreover, limited and lowquality information has plunged the residents into darkness, resulting in an erosion of the social cohesion that is needed in an emergency situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, the authorities' attention has been more focused on misleading information, hoaxes, and so forth, but little attention has been paid to citizens' right to information, which requires transparency and professionalism on behalf of the authorities. Certainly, misinformation and rumors contribute to the poor communication ecosystem, but the reluctance of the state to guarantee citizens' right to information has diminished the citizens’ opportunity to participate and to demonstrate solidarity. While this research is compiled, the spread of COVID-19 is still ongoing. Ensuring that no one is left behind in the response and mitigation measures must be a priority. This study sees people with disabilities as one of the groups who are left behind in various mitigation efforts, including those related to education and social protection. Children are in a similar situation, especially those from low-income families who become affected by the current education policies and limited social protection. Meanwhile, women face multiple levels of vulnerabilities, starting from the health aspect, with the disruption of its essential services; protection of workers' rights where most of the informal and migrant workers are women; as well as increasing violence against the women during the pandemic. Besides ensuring that no one is left behind, social protection policies, especially social assistance, are one of the issues highlighted in this study. Misdirected targets, incompatibility with citizens' needs, complicated procedures in accessing them, and poor tata kelola social assistance, are the fundamental issues to adress to fulfil citizens' right to social security. Poor data collection and management are considered to be the main causes of the problems. The design of social protection policies and programs, which are still target-oriented and not yet lifecycle-based, causing the implementation of social assistance to encounter many problems. 34