Human rights in the time of Covid: 'a pandemic of abuses', says UN head Exclusive: The crisis has rolled back years of progress and been used as a pretext to crackdown on freedoms, says António GuterresThe world is facing a "pandemic of human rights abuses", the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent. Continue reading...