INTRODUCTION –

Living in a world so advanced and highly progressive can pose some serious threats to the community that sustains within it. To look at certain problems that arise out of this complexity and rapid development, we would look into one very important aspect of rights guaranteed to various nations by the United Nations. It is certain that United Nations is the father of granting the much needed and not so much thought upon in earlier times -Human Rights that we as citizens, people exercise in our day to day lives without realising its need and importance. Only times like pandemics, emergencies and economic or financial crisis makes us aware and desperate for them. Now, it might appear or seem a vague right now but that’s the reality check we need to get in order for righteous implementation and to excess our human rights in situations that demand human safety. We fail to accept the fact that these global crisis like economic recession pose a dangerous threat to our not so well protected Human rights. Through this piece of writing I wish to evaluate and throw light on how and why these rights need to be ensured to each and every person without crisis being a factor for its ignorance. Is government doing enough to grant human rights to everyone or does it need a few amendments for its execution? We will deal with all such human rights related issues that pop up specially during difficult times like economic recession.

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND WHAT DOES ECONOMIC RECESSION CHANGE?

There will always undoubtably be a direct relationship between business activities and uncertainities. I have come to this conclusion because if we see larger the business activity, the more is the risk associated with it. Obviously, there will be factors effecting the conduct of business cycles will ultimately lead to recession but those factors are also effected by the ongoing business activities and vice versa. It is therefore a two-way cause and effect relationship that governs this economy. The purpose of this analysis is to take into consideration the fact that we cannot control or even curtail business cycles. That would mean that economic recession can happen anytime when these factors like changing human demands, changes in cost and production, value of capital etc. are not held constant. But the question that arises is that do we need to curtail or restrict human rights during these unavoidable yet sometimes predictable circumstances? Do human rights exist to be exercised by people when in such situations?

Economic recession surely interferes with human rights and there is no doubt that it causes threat to their existence. For example, if we look at the current pandemic situations, we all have laid our eyes on how drastic is it for some people who lack recognition as of now. Let’s talk about one very crucial human right that is the the Right to Life and Liberty in response to COVID-19. It becomes a duty of government to protect and regulate the dimensions of this human right because everybody should have the right to have access to best medical treatment attainable to human kind. Any prohibitions or restrictions regarding this during emergency medical crisis like these take away the good faith that the public had in its chosen representative. So here comes the direct participation of the government such that it re-establishes the belief public had to maintain proper health standards.

Talking about the right to Work and Education, economic crisis works against the idea of employment because of obvious reasons that business enterprises need to cut down cost and so labour has to be evicted. Here the right to work is endangered and govt. will have valid reasons to not protect them but what we need to seek and learn here is how to come to a solution that ensures the interests of both business enterprises and labour. We therefore need to evolve into more and new dimension of Human Rights.

ADOPTING BETTER HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY

For better understanding and analysing the formulation of justified human rights, lets look into human development that is hindered during economic recessions. For every country human capital is the key to its success and that is the foundation for the upcoming advancements that could ever take place in its economy. Having better access to better resources and facilities such as food and shelter, healthcare, infrastructure etc. integration of human right principles with national economic policy making serves as the biggest solution in today’s time. Obligations enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights need to be identified more seriously and applied more effectively. These are the times when we need to scrutinize the various and already existing policies of government to check upon their functioning. For this objective,

Government should take in more accountability and responsibility of takin g care of issues like poverty, unemployment, corruption, crime even during times of recession so as to avoid creating gaps between the haves and have nots.

Equal distribution of resources should be a must evicting out all discrimination related issues.

The notion of state responsibility has to be kept in mind because these are Human Rights we are talking about and not just Fundamental Rights that cease to exist during some emergencies.

Permitting healthy debates on solutions towards resolving crisis gives public the much needed participation and involvement in a way that they are able to exercise their right of freedom of expression.

GETTING INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Under the UN Charter, national governments who are a member of the United Nations, have to serve and adhere to certain strict regulations to promote the successful functioning of all Human Rights. This gives a chance to the general public who seeks to exercise their rights during economic crisis to address their problems to come up with better solutions. Through various international conferences happening every year, the civilians get to know about what all rights to avail and fight for. This is how being internationally connected can help several underdeveloped and developing countries to prosper in the field of Human Rights.

All in all, Human Rights do get effected negatively during circumstances involving economic recessions but the ground rule that can locate and address the problems related to such rights lies with the government and its people.