Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies, ICILS 2021, June 8-9 2021, Semarang, Indonesia

Research Article

The Discourse of Child Protection Amidst Covid-19 Outbreaks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-6-2021.2314362,
        author={Rodiyah  Rodiyah and Ridwan  Arifin and Safari Dwi Chandra},
        title={The Discourse of Child Protection Amidst Covid-19 Outbreaks},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies, ICILS 2021, June 8-9 2021, Semarang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICILS},
        year={2022},
        month={2},
        keywords={violence; human rights protection; child protection},
        doi={10.4108/eai.8-6-2021.2314362}
    }
    
  • Rodiyah Rodiyah
    Ridwan Arifin
    Safari Dwi Chandra
    Year: 2022
    The Discourse of Child Protection Amidst Covid-19 Outbreaks
    ICILS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-6-2021.2314362
Rodiyah Rodiyah1,*, Ridwan Arifin1, Safari Dwi Chandra1
  • 1: Universitas Negeri Semarang
*Contact email: rodiyah@mail.unnes.ac.id

Abstract

Covid-19 Pandemic has globally impact, including to sector law enforcement as well as human rights protection. Some violation of human rights cases happened during the outbreaks, including violence against children. Total or partial lockdown affected to this violence. This article tries to discuss the violation of human rights during Covid-19 outbreaks based on human rights law perspective. This article emphasized and highlighted that the psychological health of children is now being questioned, no longer their physical health due to the coronavirus, but also their mental health due to the pressure and violence they experienced. This problem is due to several social factors that surround around the child, the pandemic is actually a hotspot that causes these factors to emerge. Then what is the legal protection that regulates this matter, especially regarding violence against children in the family sphere.