Politicians have long raised concerns about the extent to which international human rights law affects UK migration policy.
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Should “being young” be enshrined as a human right?
A parliamentary committee has recommended a dedicated act to protect human rights. Here’s how it could work.
Even those who seek out the spotlight have a legal right to privacy.
Plan to cut emissions quickly, use offsets sparingly and set broader goals for improving society.
Will recent acts of violence against Muslims in Canada lead us to see what we should have seen earlier — that anti-Muslim works are hate speech that encourage violence against Muslims?
Hate crimes after a terrorist attack usually target people from the terrorist’s background. But the Christchurch mosque shootings led to a surge in abuse directed at victims of the attacks.
Children need to know how to get help when they feel at risk.
Was The Sun’s story about England’s Ashes hero an invasion of privacy?
Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
In a divided, alienated, austerity, backward-looking Britain, the time has come to make good on social rights.
Judge’s decision means the media cannot identify a suspect until they are arrested. This may be challenged on appeal.
A judge has ruled that placing a 16-year-old in solitary confinement breached his human rights.
The Conservative party manifesto’s repudiation of the ‘libertarian right’ bodes ill for the European Court of Human Rights.
Citizens need to be able to seek remedies for breaches of human rights in our own courts.
You’d think that the “conscience of Europe” would strive to protect migrants’ human rights.
The Tories have had the Human Rights Act in their sights for some time – but now they’ve got a chance to do take it out, they could end up living a nightmare.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
Labour hasn’t made any new evident spending pledges for sports. Is it failing to see sport as a crucial part of culture?
North Korea is outraged over an upcoming conference in Washington DC about its human rights abuses, to which it has not been invited. Pyongyang strongly denies that it has been alienating the human rights…
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