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Appendix to Human Rights During the Pandemic ............................................................................................................................. ............................................... Contents APPENDIX: GRAPHS FOR EACH COUNTRY ....................................................................................... 4 American Samoa ............................................................................................................ 5 Angola ........................................................................................................................... 6 Australia ...................................................................................................................... 11 Brazil ........................................................................................................................... 16 Cook Islands ................................................................................................................ 21 Democratic Republic of Congo ...................................................................................... 26 Fiji ............................................................................................................................... 31 French Polynesia .......................................................................................................... 36 Federated States of Micronesia ..................................................................................... 41 Guam ........................................................................................................................... 46 Hong Kong ................................................................................................................... 51 Jordan ......................................................................................................................... 56 Kazakhstan .................................................................................................................. 61 Kiribati ......................................................................................................................... 66 Kyrgyzstan ................................................................................................................... 70 Liberia.......................................................................................................................... 75 Malaysia ...................................................................................................................... 78 Marshall Islands ........................................................................................................... 83 Mexico ......................................................................................................................... 87 Mozambique ................................................................................................................ 92 Nauru ........................................................................................................................... 97 Nepal ........................................................................................................................... 98 New Caledonia ........................................................................................................... 103 New Zealand .............................................................................................................. 108 Niue ........................................................................................................................... 113 Northern Mariana Islands ............................................................................................ 118 Papua New Guinea ..................................................................................................... 123 Samoa ....................................................................................................................... 128 Saudi Arabia ............................................................................................................... 133 Solomon Islands ......................................................................................................... 138 South Korea ............................................................................................................... 140 Taiwan ....................................................................................................................... 145 Tonga ........................................................................................................................ 150 Tuvalu ........................................................................................................................ 155 United Kingdom .......................................................................................................... 156 United States .............................................................................................................. 161 Vanuatu ..................................................................................................................... 166 Venezuela .................................................................................................................. 168 Vietnam ..................................................................................................................... 173 ............................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................ Appendix: Graphs for each Country In the main body of our report Human Rights During the Pandemic, we present graphs showing our findings across all human rights experts from 39 countries. In this Appendix, we present graphs showing the full responses from human rights experts, country by country. For each country, shown in alphabetical order, some or all of the following are available: • A graph showing how badly each rights category was affected, based on the responses of human rights in our annual survey. • A graph for each of those rights categories: Safety from the State, Empowerment, and Quality of Life, showing which rights within the category were affected by Covid-19. • For convenience, screenshots from the Rights Tracker, showing the change over time for Safety from the State and Empowerment rights. In some countries with small populations, the first two sets of graphs were not able to be produced, because we could not get enough responses from human rights experts. In these cases we only show what is available. Please note that the Rights Tracker has further information, including lists of which people groups were at extra risk of rights violations, and more context from our experts. Human Rights Measurement Initiative 24 June 2021 ............................................................................................................................................................................ American Samoa Which human rights were most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic? How have these rights changed over time? ............................................................................................................................................................................ Angola During 2020 in Angola, what effect did the Covid-19 pandemic have on the following categories of human rights practices? ............................................................................................................................................................................ Which human rights were most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic? Safety from the State ............................................................................................................................................................................ Empowerment ............................................................................................................................................................................ Quality of Life ............................................................................................................................................................................ How have these rights changed over time? ............................................................................................................................................................................ Australia During 2020 in Australia, what effect did the Covid-19 pandemic have on the following categories of human rights practices? ............................................................................................................................................................................ Which human rights were most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic? Safety from the State ............................................................................................................................................................................ Empowerment ............................................................................................................................................................................ Quality of Life ............................................................................................................................................................................ How have these rights changed over time? ...........................................................................................................................................................................
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