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 ...

Proposals for a United Nations index measuring the human rights record of every country are to be unveiled tomorrow by the Green party

  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...

The Green Party are calling for a new method of encouraging member states of the United Nations (UN) to improve their human rights record.

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...

On International Human Rights Day, and on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Danny Kennedy MLA, deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Assembly Party, has restated the UUP's Commitment to human rights.

“A big vote for the Greens is the surest way to stop the BNP winning a seat. The candidate best placed to stop Nick Griffin is Peter Cranie, the Green Party candidate,” said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, the Green Party’s human rights spokesperson, today. He was commenting on the European election campaign in North West England, in advance of his visit to Live...

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...

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 ...

Peter Tatchell, one of Britain's best known and most tireless human rights campaigners, today sent an open letter to US president-elect Barack Obama. Mr Tatchell, who is the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East as well as the party's national spokesperson on human rights, called on the new president to take the lead in "Preserving our fragile biosphere... [which] is t...