For immediate release - 8 December 2008 On Monday December 8th, two days before the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Green Party will launch an ambitious plan to expose governments that abuse human rights - a Global Human Rights Index. The proposed index has the backing of Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas MEP, and Green Party human rights spokesperson, Peter ...

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...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking some heat for failing to put a higher priority on human rights during he recent visit to China. Human Rights Watch objected to Clinton’s comment that raising issues such as human rights “can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises” and

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...

This site is maintained by leading human rights group Human Rights watch. It provides free access to press releases, briefing papers, and full text reports relating to human rights and civil liberties in Britain. These generally date from 1991 onwards and include regular overviews of human rights developments in the Uk. Key topics covered include controversy surrounding the extension of the powers...

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 ...

SCOTLAND has an excellent human rights culture - except where it matters. It can boast the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS)

Every country in the UN has its human rights record examined every four years, and the UK will be reviewed again in 2012. However, during the last review in 2008 only 19 civil society organisations sent submissions to the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This seems incredibly low to me.

  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...