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...

Eur-Lex, the legal portal to legislation of the European Union (European Community), has published a new thematic file on human rights, one of the founding values. The aim of a thematic file is to present core legislation, preparatory acts and other acts in a certain area in a convenient form for users. The following thematic files offering EU legal materials are available: • Human rights (23...

Police and magistrates should have the power to "ground" antisocial teenagers, the shadow home secretary will announce today. The curfew would confine children and young people to their homes, except to attend school, and could last for up to a month. "I think our police need the power to ground a young persistent troublemaker – in the hope that we can stop them from getting so far into trou...

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 ...

  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...

Britain should do more to look after the "special needs" of children who arrive as asylum-seekers and immigrants, the EU's commissioner on human rights warned today.

This year marks thirty years of the Amnesty International (UK) trade union network, so people working at the TUC are marking the year by providing a collective guest blog on trade union rights, linked to the blog by Shane Enright, AIUK's trade union campaigns manager. Trade unions and human rights go way back, of course, but few people know that the person who really started Amnesty Interna

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the DNA of two men who were not convicted of a crime should be removed from the police DNA database. A welcome decision in my view. But why can't people get it into their thick heads that the ECHR is not a European Union court? Every time it makes a ruling, people start banging on about the EU. The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 ...

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...