‘Vaccination Should Be By Choice And Not By Force’: Human Rights Groups Condemn COVID-19 Restrictions

Even as the Biden administration lost its battle to impose a national COVID-19 vaccination mandate on those who work at companies with at least 100 employees, governments around the world ratcheted up their already strict coronavirus protocols. Now, a growing chorus of human rights groups warn that in some nations vaccine mandates, vaccination passports, and other government restrictions threaten to cut off the unvaccinated population’s access to basic necessities. In others, autocratic governments have selectively exploited COVID-19 restrictions to quash freedom of speech and criminalize political opposition. NGOs warn that as they are implemented by some rulers, anti-COVID measures may threaten democracy.

Against vaccination mandates