Authors:

Sukanya Baruah

Abstract:

‘Virus has no national identity’ this statement has truly signifies when a new deadly virus COVID-19 has been emerged in the world. COVID-19 creates a greater challenge of all the spheres in the human lives basically it creates threat for the human life all of the countries in the world. Because lack of the available vaccine to stop spreading of this virus, all countries announced lock down to save the human life from this deadly virus. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown for the first time on March 24 for 21 days but later on it was extended. In this period people face a drastic change of their life. This lockdown creates change their daily life style. All of the sections face a difficult situation in this period. But particularly marginalised sections face a lot. However women are the worst sufferer during this lockdown period. Although government tries to save the human life through the lock down but in reality women are not safe inside the home. They face an insecurity in health, financial and psychic –social way. It creates increasing violence among women in the domestic sphere. Simply call that women face a greater human rights violation. Thus, government of India has been implement certain steps try to cope up this situation during the lockdown period. In this context, this paper attempts to analysis this issue.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Human Right, India, Lockdown, Women

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021