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human rights

Parliament

Project 2029 poses a real threat to our democracy: We must act

Tom Brake
13 November, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

The UK is waking up to the reality that the UK is also vulnerable to the equivalent of the US’s Project 2025

Right-Wing Watch

The new immigration hot potato: How the ECHR was hijacked by the right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 October, 2025

We should have learned from Brexit, which weakened Britain in every sense. Now the same voices want to abandon the ECHR. We know where that road will lead.

Kemi Badenoch on Sky News

Unlike Kemi Badenoch voters want the UK to remain a member of the ECHR, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
8 October, 2025

The Trades Union Congress has warned that withdrawing from the ECHR would also amount to an attack on workers rights

News

UK seafood imports at risk of human rights abuses, report finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 September, 2025

Since leaving the EU, the UK has drastically reduced checks on imported seafood.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
News

Nigel Farage’s vow to scrap Human Rights Act leads to stark warnings about how it would undermine all of our rights

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2025

“The Human Rights Act protects everyone. Including you. He wrecked your economy with brexit, don’t let him wreck your freedoms with this.”

Nigel Farage announcing his mass deportation plan
News

Nigel Farage dodges questions on returning asylum seekers who could be tortured or killed

Olivia Barber
26 August, 2025

Farage didn’t seem too concerned about potential human rights abuses

A photo of a ballot box
Opinion

It’s not Left vs Right anymore. It’s humanity vs inhumanity.

Claire Jones
7 May, 2025

We need to challenge the right-wing tactic of re-defining moral truths as ‘Leftie ranting’

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Cuts to disability benefits are riding roughshod over human rights

Jen Clark
4 April, 2025

Poverty is a political choice, and ending it is possible should those in powers choose to

Amnesty
News

Amnesty condemns UK for ‘appalling’ domestic policies in damning report

Hannah Davenport
24 April, 2024

‘The UK is deliberately destabilising the entire concept of universal human rights’

Refugees
News

Why are human rights groups condemning the Rwanda bill? Here’s what you need to know

Basit Mahmood
23 April, 2024

Despite the findings of the Supreme Court, the government is compelling judges to treat Rwanda as a safe country.

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