human rights Articles

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the aftermath of the second world war. For years, work on human rights focused primarily on civil and political rights while development policy gave priority to economic and social rights....

This week, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office revised its global human rights goals. It dropped priorities including the abolition of the death penalty, in favour of three broad areas: democratic values, human rights and the rule of law. For most people, this change...

Erdogan needs to go —Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was once reported as saying that democracy for him was like a bus ride: when he reached his stop, he would get off. In recent years, he has often seemed to be edging closer and closer towards that stop....

I was moved to make this my first early day motion because the current situation for people making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea is a frightening indictment of our times. During the last four years the numbers of migrants and refugees making this...