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.

The concept of property is fundamental to our society, probably to any workable society. Operationally, it is understood by every child above the age of three. Intellectually, it is understood by almost no one. Consider the slogan "property rights vs. human rights." Its rhetorical force comes from the implication that property rights are the rights of property and human rights the rights of humans...

The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights has said that there should be a new Bill of Rights [pdf] (or Bill of rights and Freedoms) for the United Kingdom, which will apply to both citizens and non-citizens. It will, it is suggested, draw on the “UK’s distinctive [legal] traditions” (p. 42, No. 146), and set out certain rights, such as the right to trial by jury, right to a...

The Director of Public Prosecutions has made an unprecedented attack on a key Conservative policy by insisting that scrapping the Human Rights Act would bring "shame" on Britain.

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...

From Black Looks  The following Statement from the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, The Coalition’s first press release entitled ‘Anti-Homosexuality or Anti-Human Rights Bill?’, was published on 24 October 2009 editions of Uganda Dailies The New Vision; The Independent , The Monitor – and a local vernacular daily Bukedde Newspaper. I...

THE Law Society of Scotland is acting as "judge, jury and executioner" for the Scottish legal profession by presiding over an "unfair and undemocratic" referen

Article 22 of the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads:Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and...

The persistent growth of the human rights culture is one of the profound menaces to the effective functioning of our society. So what could be more natural for a dim-wit to suggest that "Human rights experts" should be drafted-in to bolster the ranks of civil servants in any new Department of Justice here in Northern Ireland!! "The SDLP's Alex Attwood made his proposal at a Stormont committee...

The Law Society could have done some good last week. The Law Society could have put out a press release reassuring people that the legal risks if you decide to be a good neighbour and clear the snow and ice from outside your home are hugely overstated (i.e. the risk is so tiny no-one I’ve asked