Pandemic worsened inequality and boosted authoritarian regimes — Eamon Gilmore

EU special representative for human rights, Eamon Gilmore (right) speaking at today's online event with the acting head of the European Commission Representation in Ireland, Andy Klom, who moderated the event.

The Covid-19 pandemic has "painfully exposed weakness and divisions in societies, worsened existing problems, and generated its own human rights own challenges".

That is according to former tánaiste and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore, who now serves as an EU special representative for human rights.