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This year, the 71st of World Human Rights Day commemoration on December 10 will be recorded in history because this year there is something that has never happened before, COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, the theme of World Human Rights Day is related to the Covid-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring human rights is the core of recovery efforts.

The United Nations (UN) seeks to achieve common global goals by creating equal opportunities for all, addressing the failures exposed and exploited by Covid-19, and implementing human rights standards to address rooted, systematic, inequality, exclusion and discrimination and between generations.

December 10 is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in rebuilding the world we want, the need for global solidarity and our connectedness and common humanity.

At the beginning of the spread of Covid 19, UN Secretary General Antoni Guetteress had mentioned that this pandemic tends to make people ignore human rights. Due to Covid, the doors of the border areas were closed, the right to pass was restricted, the granting of asylum was stopped, so that Covid can be overcome immediately. In several aspects, the anticipation of the spread of Covid 19 has made human rights enforcement countless.

The commemoration of Human Rights Day on December 10 with the theme Recover Better, Stand Up for Human Rights shows hope that when the process of finding and completing the COVID-19 vaccine has progressed to a bright spot, it is hoped that the enforcement of human rights is also expected. will get better, be able to develop better and ensure that human rights are fulfilled during the pandemic as part of recovery efforts.

For example, it is necessary to create human rights standards in overcoming inequality, exclusion and discrimination that occurred during Covid-19. Everyone in the world has an equal opportunity to obtain this right. For example, by ending all forms of discrimination in the process of handling Covid, there needs to be encouragement and social contracts to promote and protect economic, social and cultural rights in the "new life habits" (new normal) and other steps.

What was decided to be the main focus and theme of the commemoration of International Human Rights Day is truly a note and reflection of each country during the journey to guard the pandemic. It is time for every country to touch their conscience to correct their handling of Covid so far, for better human rights enforcement.