human rights Articles

It says a lot about humanity, international institutions and individuals that despite our facade of civilisation and modernity, the last three years saw weapons of mass destruction used against civilians and violations of human rights on an industrial scale, both in...

Today the Labour Campaign for Human Rights has launched the Our Human Rights campaign, showing who will lose out if the Tories follow through on their threats to repeal the Human Rights Act and take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights. It shows how human...

Sadiq Khan announced this week that Labour will seek to shift power back to British courts after a period of perceived deference to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He also mounted a vigorous defence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the...

The Department for International Development holds a special place in the heart of the Labour party. After all, we set it up, we made it a world leader, and we brought about real change – not least through the 2005 Gleneagles Agreement to drop the debt and take steps...