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Are Human Rights a National or International Issue?
Are Human Rights a National or International Issue?
We are lucky enough to live in a free society and not to have to worry about wholesale discrimination or slaughter and, when you consider the...
Do I Need to Worry About Human Rights?
Do I Need to Worry About Human Rights?
In your everyday life it is unlikely that you will need to worry too much about the human rights issue as a whole. However, these are issues...
How did Human Rights Laws Originate?
How did Human Rights Laws Originate?
As far back as the signing of the Magna Carta people have fought for what they believed to be rights that had been denied to them. The French and American...
Repealing the UK's Human Rights Act
Repealing the UK's Human Rights Act
Ever since the Human Rights Act came into force in the UK it has divided opinion. Whose Human Rights Are Being Protected? In recent years the subject of...
The Human Rights Policies of the UK's Main Political Parties
The Human Rights Policies of the UK's Main Political Parties
Human rights law in the UK is largely enshrined in the Human Rights Act 1998. This legislation brought European Union human rights law into...
The Role of the European Court of Human Rights
The Role of the European Court of Human Rights
There has been a lot of talk in the media about the spectre of the European Union, about British Sovereignty and about fighting rule from abroad....
What are Human Rights? The Basic Facts
What are Human Rights? The Basic Facts
A Professor once told me that there is no such thing as an objective argument, everything we do, say or think is automatically coloured by our...
What is the Human Rights Act?
What is the Human Rights Act?
The Human Rights Act 1998 is an act of Parliament which brought into the British Legal System certain elements of the European Convention On Human Rights....
Your Human Rights in a Foreign Country
Your Human Rights in a Foreign Country
Your human rights as they are defined by the Human Rights Act are enshrined in UK law, but when you are abroad, your human rights may not as...
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