Yogyakarta, September 25th 2021─FISIPOL UGM Student Board (DEMA) held a webinar titled “September GERAM (Gericau HAM) X Eunoia ” on Saturday (25/9). The theme of this webinar is “Human Rights Issue and Social Inequality in the Covid-19 Management ” which invited Usman Hamid (Chairman of the Public Virtue Research Institute) and Abra Talattov (INDEF Researcher). The event was held virtually through a Zoom meeting.
There needs to be an evaluation on the social inequality in the pandemic management based on several principles in the human rights perspective. Usman Hamid said that those principles include the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the principles of participation, the principle of transparency and accountability, and the principle of international help and collaboration. However, so far, there are several problems because of the lack of attention towards those principles in the COVID-19 management. “For example, the social aid to help those that live paycheck to paycheck is not done by the state and one of the reasons behind this lack of action is the corruption in the social aid fund.” he said.