New bill of ‘rights’ is the Tories’ latest attempt to criminalise dissent
As The Canary previously reported, justice minister Dominic Raab has introduced a British Bill of Rights (BBR) to replace the ...
Tag: Human rights
Fascist Tories want to scrap the Human Rights Act
A new bill of rights is set to replace the Human Rights Act, if the Tories get their way. They've ...
Before shipping asylum seekers to Rwanda, the UK must heed lessons from Australia
I am a Senior Counsel (SC) barrister and spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance. It is my view that the ...
Sarah Everard vigil organisers win High Court challenge against Met Police
The Metropolitan Police breached the rights of organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard with its handling of the planned ...
Prison experts reject ‘entire premise’ of Tory plan to scrap Human Rights Act
Tory plans to abandon the Human Rights Act will have terrible consequences for prisoners, according to a prison reform campaign ...
Here’s all the fascist policies in the Tory pipeline for 2022
A number of new authoritarian laws are in the Tory government pipeline this year. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts ...
It’s time to scrap the racist gangs matrix
On 1 February, human rights organisation Liberty launched a judicial review claim challenging the lawfulness of the Metropolitan police's gangs ...
Corporate media whitewashed Amnesty’s Israel ‘apartheid’ report
Amnesty International has said Israel's actions and policies against Palestinians amount to apartheid. The global human rights group's verdict has ...
SNP blasts government plan to replace human rights laws as ‘ill-judged and irresponsible’
The Deputy First Minister said there should be no changes to the Human Rights Act.
York council has discriminated against 7,500 disabled people
York council has caused anger, upset, and uproar over its decision to ban sick and disabled people from parking in ...
Activists are facing up to 25 years in prison for saving lives at sea
On 18 November, 24 human rights activists are on trial for saving refugees' lives at sea. They were arrested on ...
With a 99.7% conviction rate, it’s time the Israeli military courts went on trial
The system of dragging Palestinians before Israeli military courts is seemingly little more than a sham. In 2011, +972 Magazine ...
The UN is preparing to investigate the UK government again – and it will look at the DWP
A UN committee is gathering information ahead of another investigation into the UK government. It's over its adherence to the ...
An ex-UN investigator has written another damning report on the UK government
A report has raised human rights concerns regarding decades of failed government privatisation in the UK. A campaign group said ...
Biden’s first Guantanamo transfer is too little, too late. We need to shut it down!
US president Joe Biden recently made the first transfer of a Guantanamo Bay detention center detainee since he entered the ...
Priti Patel’s immigration bill could make the RNLI criminals
Priti Patel's controversial new immigration bill has thrown up a troubling possibility: that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) volunteers ...
European human rights commissioner urges the UK not to curb protests via Police Bill
Europe’s human rights commissioner has warned that the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill could have a “significant impact” ...
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