British bill of rights Articles

The human rights of British citizens post-Brexit are on a shaky footing, write Cherie Blair and Claire Kerschensteiner The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Upon departure, the government will no longer have to comply with the Charter of Fundamental...

Liz Truss continues the legacy of Conservative justice secretaries pledging to scrap the Human Rights Act that contains the European Convention of Human Rights for a British Bill of Rights. A combination of a lack of political will and just being a bad idea shows yet...

Today, 10 December is the international day of human rights. It marks the genesis of our modern international human rights framework.  The day in 1948 that the United Nations general assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Two years later, the...

Last week the government announced plans in the upcoming immigration bill to enable landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court order. In this latest crackdown on immigrants, rogue landlords who fail to check the immigration status of their tenants could...