UK submissions for Universal Periodic Review of human rights
22 March 2012
On 5 March 2012, the Ministry of Justice submitted the UK’s Universal Periodic Review report.
On 5 March 2012, the Ministry of Justice submitted the UK’s Universal Periodic Review report.
On 5 March 2012, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published its review on the state of human rights in England and Wales.
On 1 March 2012, the Independent newspaper published a letter by Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.
A briefing on ‘Human rights and the Commission on a Bill of Rights’ was published in October 2011 to inform the work of equality and human rights NGOs
On 26 January 2012, the Attorney General gave a lecture to London Common Law and Commercial Bar on the European Court of Human Rights and its relationship with the UK and the UK courts.
The Human Rights Watch World Report, published in January 2012, found worrying trends on human rights in the European Union region.
In January 2012, the Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech stressing the UK’s commitment to human rights but proposing reforms to the European Court of Human Rights.
In January 2012, the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) published a briefing on ‘Equality and a UK Bill of Rights’ to inform members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities
Speaking at an EDF event, Thomas Hammarberg, the European Commissioner for Human Rights, warned that watering down British laws ‘would send a dangerous signal to undemocratic states’.
In Winter 2011, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published the Human Rights Measurement Framework.