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Reminds of The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)'s, Article 4, basically undermining all 30 (even number 30 itself) of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), allowing states to "derogate" any of the articles of human rights for an emergency. [^1^]
... Like they never encountered the thought (... or... it was their intent...) that if you tell governments they're allowed more power over people and free to commit what would otherwise be crimes, for an emergency, then they will create emergencies to access those powers and to relinquish their duty to uphold human rights and their duty of care.
[^1^][Did have to search for that... thought it was one of the UDHR articles themselves that had that derogation bit.]