The importance of the humans rights-based approach in the response to the COVID-19 health crisis in Republic of North Macedonia
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29 March 2022
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Martina Smilevska Kcheva
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National
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Non-governmental organization
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Policy document
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 caused a health, economic and social crisis in
the Republic of North Macedonia. In response to the pandemic, the government
took a number of restrictive measures to prevent people from being exposed to the
virus, thus slowing down its spreading, and introduced a set of measures to mitigate
the adverse effects of the imposed restrictions. The adopted measures contributed
significantly towards restricting citizens’ rights, and included a curfew, maintaining
social distance, restricting movement and gathering, closing borders and stopping
air traffic, online education, and the like. While such restrictions of the freedoms and
rights may have, in part, been necessary to control the pandemic, many of them
were too broad or neglected to consider effects on the most vulnerable categories of
citizens, not only of the virus, but also of the socio-economic consequences.
Hence, the purpose of this public policy paper is to analyze the response of the Gov
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