human rights Articles

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...

Many of us have just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. Not because it was a great piece of legislation – it wasn’t. But it was a major achievement for disabled people in the long campaign for equal rights. The disability...

We must not forget the equalities legislation passed under the Labour government, writes Stephen Twigg One of the finest achievements of the last Labour government was comprehensive legislation to tackle discrimination, promote equality and protect human rights....

This week, President Xi Jinping of China will land in Heathrow, where he will be greeted by David Cameron and the prime minister’s signature ‘salesman-like’ smile. This will be the same prime minister who just a year ago said ‘we should stand up for… the important...