During the past 3 years, 56.4% of the people responded that COVID-19 “impacted (very and mostly)” human rights, which was higher than “not impacted (not at all and slightly)” with 43.6%. The most serious human rights issues were violation of property rights of small businesses (44.3%), isolation of vulnerable class from lack of care (43.5%), discrimination depending on COVID-19 vaccination (28.2%), and violation of personal information privacy from disease control (25.7%). Individuals show difference depending on the characteristics of the groups that they belong, but people perceive the difficulties in their livelihood from restrictions in economic and social activities due to COVID-19 as the biggest human rights issue. People’s perception and attitude towards human rights situation do not fully reflect the act human rights situations, but they are important for having a huge impact on recognizing and improving the human rdirection. The details on the human rights status and topics in major areas will be presented in Part II. 8

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