Priti Patel’s own staff launch legal challenge against inhumane policy
‘The pushback policy being pursued by the home secretary is unlawful, unworkable and above all morally reprehensible.’
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Amnesty International warns of “unprecedented programme of rights reversal” by the government
“Ordinary people have fought hard and often bitter battles to achieve these rights – and we mustn’t let them be struck out by politicians who think they are merely getting in their way.”
Human rights groups slam Newcastle United takeover by Saudi investment fund as “tool for erasing human rights abuse”
The Premier League’s owners’ and directors’ test does not prohibit those complicit in acts of torture, slavery, human trafficking or war crimes.
Whatever happened to the government’s Disability Champions?
‘For disabled people, Britain is a country of many barriers. Our high streets, transport network, and housing system are inaccessible.’
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill threatens your right to protest
‘Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted’.
Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
Priti Patel slammed for ‘inhumane and illegal’ plans to send boats carrying migrants back to France
‘Rather than spending time, resource and immense effort on pushing these very vulnerable people away, this government must give people options for safe routes’
Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill will further criminalise asylum seekers
‘According to Patel, our asylum system is broken and the way to fix it is to criminalise asylum seekers’.
Human rights lawyer speaks out against offshore asylum centres over ‘human toll’
The new borders bill contains powers allowing asylum claims to be processed outside the UK and could pave the way for offshore processing centres.
Open letter urges UN Human Rights Council to make climate change a higher priority
“Violence against the planet is also violence against people,” says climate campaigner Isabella Shraiman.