en-us	Over 6,200 cases of COVID-19 infections have been reported in West Africa and the UN family in the region has come together to support Governments’ responses to the pandemic. 
zh-cn	西非地区已报告了6200多例2019冠状病毒病感染病例，该区域的联合国大家庭正齐心协力支持各国政府应对此次大流行病。 

en-us	All countries in the region have reported cases and, over the past few weeks, several have reported spikes in the increase of infections, as well as community cases.  
zh-cn	目前，西非地区的所有国家都报告了确诊病例。在过去几周里，一些国家报告了感染病例和社区病例激增的情况。 

en-us	Mindful that the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the strong health systems of high-income countries, serious concerns are being raised in West Africa where most countries’ health,  
zh-cn	鉴于到2019冠状病毒病大流行正在挑战高收入国家较完善的医疗卫生系统，西非地区的疫情正在引发严重关切。 

en-us	political and economic systems also have to deal with inherent weaknesses to respond effectively to the pandemic. 
zh-cn	该区域大多数国家的医疗、政治和经济系统也必须解决其内在缺陷，才能有效应对此次大流行病。 

en-us	Marlene Urscheler heads the Emergency Response Team at UN Human Rights’ Regional Office for West Africa based in Dakar, Senegal.  
zh-cn	马勒那·乌尔舍勒是位于塞内加尔达喀尔的联合国人权高专办西非区域办事处的应急小组负责人。 

en-us	She was recently designated as the Office’s focal point for COVID-19 related issues in the region. 
zh-cn	她于近期被任命为人权高专办在西非区域负责2019冠状病毒病有关问题的协调人。 

en-us	Q:How has COVID-19 affected your work? 
zh-cn	提问：2019冠状病毒病对您的工作有什么影响？ 

en-us	COVID-19 has completely changed the way we work.  
zh-cn	2019冠状病毒病彻底改变了我们工作的方式。 

en-us	First, in terms of not going to the office, working from home, having to deal with distance learning for kids at home and balance spouses’ work priorities.  
zh-cn	首先就是不去办公室、居家办公、不得不为家中的孩子们解决远程学习以及平衡配偶的工作重点等问题。 

en-us	I was quickly given tasks directly related to the Regional Office’s COVID-19 response.  
zh-cn	我很快就接到了与区域办事处应对2019冠状病毒病直接相关的工作任务。 

en-us	This involves participating in the coordination of efforts within a regional UN and civil society platform headed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and co-led by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).  
zh-cn	其中涉及参与协调由世界卫生组织领导、联合国人道主义事务协调厅共同牵头的区域性联合国和民间社会平台内部的工作。  

en-us	That platform serves as a space to share information and, through its six pillars structure, to provide support and guidance on the different aspects of the response to the pandemic.  
zh-cn	该平台提供了信息交流的空间，并通过其六大支柱结构提供关于在不同层面应对此次大流行病的支持和指导。 

en-us	In one of the pillars, together we are trying to figure out an assessment of the priority issues of countries in the region - which ones should be given priority to - and apply objective criteria in this regard. 
zh-cn	在其中一个支柱的支撑下，我们正在共同尝试弄清西非地区各国的优先事项，即弄清哪些问题应得到优先处理及如何在此方面应用客观标准。 

en-us	Because of the pandemic, we are moving into a new area that involves more engagement with humanitarian actors with whom we may not have had  such close contacts before.  
zh-cn	此次大流行病让我们正在进入一个新领域，这一领域涉及与人道主义行为者的更多接触，而此前我们可能没有与他们进行过如此密切的接触。 

en-us	We found that for us it is easier to engage in areas where you have pre-established contacts and partnerships to build upon. 
zh-cn	对我们来说，参与到已经预先建立起联系和伙伴关系的领域要更加容易。 

en-us	Q:What has the Regional Office been doing to protect the rights of people during this pandemic? 
zh-cn	提问：在这场大流行病期间，区域办事处为保护人们的权利采取了哪些行动？ 

en-us	The role of UN Human Rights is to protect the rights of everyone and in the context of the pandemic a particular emphasis is given to the groups of people whose right to health may be most affected.  
zh-cn	联合国人权高专办的作用是保护每个人的权利，在此次大流行病的情况下，我们尤其关注健康权可能受到最大影响的群体。 

en-us	For example, persons living with disabilities, how will we ensure that they have access to healthcare and regular needed check-up in situations of confinement?  
zh-cn	例如，我们要如何确保残疾人在禁闭状况下获得医疗服务和必要的定期检查？ 

en-us	However, our work goes much beyond the right to health.  
zh-cn	但是，我们的工作内容远不止健康权的范畴。 

en-us	For example, we need to consider how to ensure that the issue of sexual and gender-based violence is mainstreamed as, unfortunately, it is becoming more prevalent in situations of confinement.  
zh-cn	例如，我们需要考虑如何确保将性暴力和性别暴力问题纳入主流工作，因为，不幸的是，这一问题在禁闭状况下正变得越来越普遍。 

en-us	These are just two examples but we need to identify which are the most vulnerable groups and try to advocate, be their voice and speak up for them to ensure that no one is left behind. 
zh-cn	这只是两个例子，但我们需要查明哪些人属于最脆弱群体，并努力为其奔走、成为他们的声音、为他们而发声，以确保没有人掉队。

en-us	I think this is the role that the Office should play. 
zh-cn	我想这就是办事处应该发挥的作用。 

en-us	Another element that I think we need to be very mindful of is prevention, looking beyond the immediate and getting prepared.  
zh-cn	我认为需要非常关注的另一个内容就是预防，我们应该具备长远眼光、未雨绸缪。 

en-us	We are in a region where there are humanitarian crises and conflict in so many countries; there is a migration crisis, internally displaced persons, violent extremism...  
zh-cn	在我们所处的西非，许多国家内部都存在人道主义危机和冲突，如移民危机、境内流离失所、暴力极端主义等等。 

en-us	These contribute to a completely different area of concerns in the context of a pandemic.  
zh-cn	在大流行病的情况下，这些问题在许多截然不同的领域都造成了关切。 

en-us	It would be difficult to assess the magnitude of the upcoming economic slowdown and to which degree it would affect certain groups of people disproportionately.  
zh-cn	要评估即将到来的经济放缓程度和它会在多大程度上对某些群体造成尤为严重的影响，可能是困难的。 

en-us	The informal economy constitutes a large part of the economies in West Africa.  
zh-cn	在西非地区，非正规经济在整体经济中的占比非常高。 

en-us	The lockdowns, curfews and general economic crises disproportionately affected the workforce in the informal economy, as there is no social security such as unemployment benefits for them.  
zh-cn	封锁、宵禁和普遍的经济危机对非正规经济中的劳动力造成了尤为严重的影响，因为这些人没有失业福利等社会保障。 

en-us	We need to find a way to by adapting response measures in such a way that they don’t, once again, leave the most vulnerable behind, those that are always kept out; and that development, security and health don’t only benefit those that are already in a better situation. 
zh-cn	我们需要找到调整应对措施的办法，使总被排斥在外的最脆弱群体不会再一次掉队，也要让发展、安全和健康不会只惠及到已经处于较好状况的群体。 

en-us	The WFP (World Food Programme) and the FAO (the UN Food and Agriculture Organization) have recently produced predictive reports on food insecurity in the next three or six months in the region; the numbers they have put forward are very concerning.  
zh-cn	粮食署（世界粮食计划署）和粮农组织（联合国粮食及农业组织）最近就西非地区未来三或六个月的粮食不安全情况作出了预测报告，其中提到的数字令人非常关切。 

en-us	The travel restrictions in place render humanitarian access very difficult for goods and persons. 
zh-cn	现行的旅行限制使得物资和人员方面的人道主义援助十分艰难。 

en-us	Q:Are there other human rights situations that your office monitors regularly that have been exacerbated, and are there new ones that you're considering now because of the pandemic? 
zh-cn	提问：根据西非区域办事处的定期监测，其他方面的人权状况是否已经出现恶化，你们是否因此次大流行病而正在考虑新的人权状况？ 

en-us	An area that we are looking into is the issue of detention.  
zh-cn	目前，我们正在调查拘留问题。 

en-us	In the region, there is huge overcrowding of many detention places, prisons specifically,  
zh-cn	在西非地区，许多拘留场所，尤其是监狱，都存在严重过度拥挤的问题。 

en-us	and the spread of the virus was identified very early on as one of the risks for people in detention in such unsanitary situations.  
zh-cn	在这种不卫生条件下，病毒传播很早就被确定为是被拘留者面临的风险之一。 

en-us	UN Human Rights has supported processes to have presidential pardons or get many detainees released, which was, in my view, a very positive measure taken by many Governments.  
zh-cn	联合国人权高专办支持总统赦免或释放许多被拘留者的进程，在我看来，这是许多政府所采取的非常积极的措施。 

en-us	We would have hoped the overcrowding of prisons would have been addressed anyway but, in that situation, the COVID-19 pandemic helped show that the overcrowding could become a liability for Governments, because if they don't release these people now, they might be faced with a much bigger crisis. 
zh-cn	我们原本希望监狱的过度拥挤问题无论如何都能得到解决，但是，在现在的状况下，2019冠状病毒病大流行表明了过度拥挤可能成为政府的责任，因为政府如果立即不释放被拘留者，就可能面临更大的危机 

en-us	At the moment, almost every person’s rights are affected somehow by COVID-19, and there are so many issues we could work on and we should work on.  
zh-cn	目前，几乎每个人的权利都受到2019冠状病毒病的影响，我们有很多可以解决并且应该努力解决的事项。 

en-us	We are so solicited, but we have to strategically choose to engage in areas where we have pre-established contacts, where we already have good partnerships and where we know we can contribute to something that would otherwise be overlooked.
zh-cn	我们要做的工作有很多，但从战略角度考虑，我们必须选择参与那些已经建立联系、拥有良好伙伴关系，以及可以为有可能被忽视的事项作出贡献的领域。