Human Rights

Understand fundamental human rights principles and how they protect everyone's dignity and freedoms. Our articles explain what rights we all have and why they matter in everyday life.

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 roots of our cu...

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 that concern eve...

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 re...

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 huma...

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 effect in the UK....

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. For the pur...

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 life experienc...

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. To...

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 clearly defined,...