Back in 2008 the Report of the Party Reform Commission to the Federal Executive was published, more commonly known as the Bones Report after its Chair, Chris Bones. Both the process for drawing up the report and the report itself was not without its critics at the time (e.g. see here and here) but since

The Joint Committee on Human Rights of the House of Lords and the House of Commons has published a report called ’A Bill of Rights for the UK? Twenty-ninth Report of Session 2007–08’ (HL Paper 165-I, HC 150-I; published 10 August 2008): The report outlines a future UK Bill of Rights. *** Browsing the report, you would have to be a genius to detect that the United Kingdom is a mem...

The Commission has recently published an informative report entitled "Report on the practical operation of the methodology for a systematic and rigorous monitoring of compliance with the Charter of fundamental rights" (COM (2009) 0205). The report is really quite a...

The Tories and the media have missed the big story about Cities Unlimited, the Policy Exchange report on regional development policies. (You can download a PDF copy of it from the think tank's website.) As James Graham pointed out this morning, the report's lead author Tim Leunig is a Liberal Democrat. Indeed, during my days on the party's federal policy committee he was something o...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has today published a report setting out its recommendations for the contents of a UK Bill of Rights. Their report is here, and the evidence that they took is here. Whilst the Libertarian Party is a staunch advocate of a Bill of Rights, in the current political climate an obvious concern is that such a bill might be a way of entrenching government interference a...

The United Nations Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, is about to report on the Goldstone report into Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza at in December 2008 and 2009. The report, written by someone who could not remotely be described as biased towards the Palestinians, found devastating evidence of Israeli war crimes during the bombardment

There is some buzz about the STRATFOR report this morning titled: The Iranian Incursion in Context. I note that what makes this report most interesting is that George Friedman glossed over the context used to form the analysis. In studying the report, it is important to note this Intelligence Report is just as much news as it is intelligence, because they are quoting sources no other media source ...

Tom Griffin (London, OK): Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has today published a report on the prospect of a UK bill of rights. Committee chairman Andrew Dismore argues that the report's recommendations offer a solution to the thorny question of how such bills should deal with social and economic rights. The Human Rights Act is a parliamentary model of human rights protection. ...

UK hid illegal acts and breached basic human rights of detainees in US rendition programme, report finds Britain has been condemned in a highly critical United Nations report for breaching basic human rights and "trying to conceal illegal acts" in the fight against terrorism. The report is sharply critical of British co-operation in the transfer of detainees to places where they are likely to be t...

A new report reveals the human cost of suspending constitutional rights in Punjab, India from 1984 - 1995. Ensaaf and the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) released a report this week presenting verifiable quantitative findings on mass disappearances and extrajudicial executions in the Indian state of Punjab, contradicting the Indian government’s portrayal of the Punjab count...