This isn't just good news on its own terms, it shows that even some folks in the legal system are aware of the honking great contradicition at the heart of the system. While liberals in the legal system invent ever-more bizarre human rights, the family courts are allowed to ignore even long-standing principles of justice: The European Court of Human Rights ruled their rights had been infringed bec...

MPs are calling for a British Bill of Rights, which would go further than existing human rights law. The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights wants to include greater protections for vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly. Currently, our main protection in law comes from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) - an international treaty - and the UK's own Human Rights...

An all-party Committee on Human Rights has proposed that all Britons should be given a legal guarantee of "a decent standard of living, health and housing", for the benefit of any future government which may happen to care about its legal obligations. Such rights could be enshrined under the Bill of Rights which the Glorious Successor no doubt has in mind for the next parliament, along with

  On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights on 10th December 2008, Human Rights Day, the Spokespersons of the European Green Party have said that there is no cause for complacency regarding the human rights situation within the EU itself and that EU Member States and institutions must also do much more to defend human rights in their dealings with countries ou...

  10th December 2008 marks the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, and is known internationally as Human Rights Day. European Green Party spokespeople say that there is no cause for complacency regarding the human rights situation within the EU itself and that EU Member States and institutions must also do much more to defend human rights in their dealings with countries outs...

I feel that many will not agree that an international agreement written with the express purpose of protecting human rights could possible be responsible for the removal of rights, how could it be that this is possible. Well what exactly are basic human rights; traditionally they are controls on those who ...

One of the things that is most execrable about Canada's so-called human rights commissions is that they trade on the words "human rights". And, like counterfeit money devaluing real money, their counterfeit human rights, like the "human right" not to be offended, devalue the term that once was reserved for real rights like freedom of religion, the equality of men and women before the law...

The European Union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are said to be common to the member states. The EU shall respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and as they result from the constitutional traditions ...

A campaign group is launching a legal challenge in the European Court of Human Rights to extend the rights of gay couples to allow full marriage.

A gipsy family accused of making life a misery is using legal aid to fund a human rights challenge in the European courts for being evicted - from a travellers' camp.