Human Rights Act

The Human Rights Act is a piece of legislation that was passed in the United Kingdom in 1998. It incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic British law, allowing individuals to seek protection of their rights in UK courts. The Act sets out a number of fundamental rights and freedoms that are protected under the convention, including the right to life, the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, the right to a fair trial, and the right to respect for private and family life. The Human Rights Act has been widely criticized by some for allegedly allowing foreign criminals to avoid deportation, among other things.

 

 

Uphold Human Rights – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, Latest news of Nepal …
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Uphold Human Rights – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, Latest news of Nepal …

Nepal, along with the rest of the world, marked the International Human Rights Day last Saturday. The Day is celebrated every year on December 10, to mark the proclamation of universal human rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. This year’s slogan is ‘Dignity, freedom and justice for all’. As a UN member…

Human Rights Day 2022: Our message to UK Government
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Human Rights Day 2022: Our message to UK Government

Today, 10 December, is International Human Rights Day and the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This milestone document ‘proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’. However, against this backdrop,…

China is not our partner: Three scenes from a regime gone rogue
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China is not our partner: Three scenes from a regime gone rogue

Breadcrumb Trail Links World NP Comment Books Benedict Rogers, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, speaks during an anti-Chinese Communist Party assembly opposite Downing Street in London on Oct. 17, 2022. Photo by May James /SOPA Images / Sipa USA Article content In this extract of The China Nexus, Benedict Rogers describes being…

Women's empowerment solution to reducing child labor, marriages – ANTARA News
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Women's empowerment solution to reducing child labor, marriages – ANTARA News

Increasing women’s empowerment can be a solution to improving child care and education and reducing violence against women and children, child labor, and child marriage Jakarta (ANTARA) – Increasing women’s empowerment can be a solution to reducing cases of child labor and child marriages, Assistant Deputy for Economic Affairs at the Women’s Empowerment and Child…

Launching of Red Card2Sextortion and Panel Discussion
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Launching of Red Card2Sextortion and Panel Discussion

Sextortion occurs in tertiary institutions and work environment around the globe, and press reports have highlighted the prevalence of sextortion in Nigeria and other African countries.  According to a survey by UNODC in Nigeria in 2020, both men and women would feel reluctant to speak about sextortion. This culture of silence means that sextortion is…

Ditching the Human Rights Act will harm survivors 
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Ditching the Human Rights Act will harm survivors 

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors. They are active in the United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Norway, Australia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Their multi-disciplinary model is based on four pillars: preventing exploitation; rescuing victims; restoring lives;…

In the spotlight: the UK’s human rights and modern slavery record under review
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In the spotlight: the UK’s human rights and modern slavery record under review

04 November 2022 In our latest blog, Jo Baker, International Advocacy Manager, takes a look at the UN’s five-year human rights reviews, which will spotlight the UK in 2022. Image credit: Melinda Nagy, via Shutterstock. Every five years, the UK has a human rights health check at the United Nations, performed by other countries, and…

Mitzi Perdue, widow of Frank Perdue, to auction off emerald engagement ring to help halt human trafficking
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Mitzi Perdue, widow of Frank Perdue, to auction off emerald engagement ring to help halt human trafficking

Mitzi Perdue, widow of the late Frank Perdue — former CEO of Perdue Farms — is heiress to the Sheraton Hotels fortune and is a self-described human rights activist. Recently she was invited to Ukraine as a special guest of the Kyiv police force, Fox News Digital is told, where she saw firsthand how the…

Women targeted for trafficking after coup | Burma News International
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Women targeted for trafficking after coup | Burma News International

Women’s affairs and human rights activists warned that labor brokers are targeting young Myanmar women for human trafficking as a result of the country’s economic downturn and lack of jobs as a result of the military coup. After the military coup, brokers began to lure young women on social media and use new approaches to…

Tibet has fallen off the international agenda, warns expert
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Tibet has fallen off the international agenda, warns expert

By ANI NEW DELHI: British human rights activist Benedict Rogers has raised alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) treatment of Tibet and Xinjiang as its ‘laboratory’ for developing a surveillance state and sinicization of all religions throughout the country. (Editor’s note, this article explains that “sinicization” means aligning religious beliefs and faiths, of any…