human rights
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.