Refugees. Is it them versus us?

 

Our poor and disadvantaged and those struggling to make ends meet – many in Britain think they should be helped rather than refugees.

You and human rights

 

Let’s get this straight: Human rights legislation is all about protecting ordinary citizens from excesses of the state – in other words, OUR GOVERNMENT.

UK SOS: Human rights under threat

 

The Tories of this century want to abandon the human rights that Tories of the last century championed and established.

After Brexit, the Tories want to scrap our Human Rights Act

The Tories are planning a bonfire of our rights after Brexit, with the top priority being to scrap our Human Rights Act and replace it with a watered down ‘Bill of Rights’.

China praises Theresa May for avoiding human rights

The Chinese government has lavished praise on Prime Minister, Theresa May, for ‘sidestepping’ human rights issues during her visit there last week.

Never again? It's happening again

After the Second World War, during which many millions were systematically, industrially, gruesomely murdered in the worst genocidal crime against humanity, the earnest, global, unison cry was, ‘Never again’.

Danish police to seize refugees' belongings

The Danish Parliament has approved a controversial new law that allows police to force refugees to hand over their valuables.

Free at last: Shaker Aamer

Imprisoned and tortured for over 13 years without charge or trial. What happened to Human Rights?

The last British resident to be kept prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, Shaker Aamer, has at last been freed and returned to Britain. Mr Aamer, who has never been charged or tried for any crime, has described being tortured in the presence of British agents.

Fiddling whilst the rest of the world burns?

• Terror alert across three continents: Read more in The Guardian

 HORRIFIC TERROR ATTACKS struck across three continents today, in Tunisia, Kuwait and France, leaving many dead and injured. 

TENS OF MILLIONS OF DESPERATE REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND DISPLACED PEOPLE are fleeing war, terror and poverty in what the United Nations has described as, 'the world's worst refugee crisis since records began.'

Who says we don't need the Human Rights Act?

• Unprotected by Human Rights: the last 'British' prisoner in Guantanamo Bay

Who says we don't need the Human Rights Act? The government says, that’s who.

And yet.. it’s the government – and governments – against whom the Human Rights Act is supposed to defend us. Human rights law is only about protecting citizens of abuse by the State. 

And yet.. here we are, with the government of Britain – our State – wanting to reduce the very rights that would protect us from their abuse. And all seemingly with the explicit consent of large numbers of the population and the backing of much of the press.

UK SOS! Our human rights are under attack

THE NEW CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT:

'Among Michael Gove's first tasks will be to scrap Labour's Human Rights Act' - The Telegraph

Michael Gove has been appointed 'Justice Secretary' and 'Lord Chancellor' to see through the new Conservative government's manifesto pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act; introduce a new UK Bill of Rights, and sever links with the European Court of Human Rights.

Law Society president Andrew Caplen responded yesterday:

'The Human Rights Act is a fundamental safeguard of many of our basic rights and freedoms.  We will be pressing for the government to retain it.'