Liberty - Protecting civil liberties, promoting human rights

Other campaigns

  • International and domestic human rights law absolutely prohibits the use of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 

  • The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, passed by Parliament in September 2011, will abolish police authorities and replace them with directly elected politicians who will oversee local police forces and hire and fire Chief Constables.

  • The Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights gives everyone in the UK the right to privacy. Everyone has the right to respect for his of her private and family life, home and correspondence.

  • Protest is a crucial part of political life, with a strong British history, yet a variety of measures have undermined the right to peaceful protest.

  • Our successful campaign to get Westminster City Council to drop a planned byelaw to criminalise the giving of free food to the homeless. The council dropped the scheme following positive negotiations and compromises on all sides.

  • Read about Liberty's successful campaign to reduce the number of days terror suspects can be held without charge.

  • The rights and freedoms Liberty campaigns to protect belong to every person in the UK – to immigrants and those seeking asylum as much as to British citizens.

  • The Justice and Security Act will make drastic changes to our system of justice and fair trials.
  • Liberty, 11 Million and the National Youth Agency have teamed up for a campaign to ban the Mosquito ‘youth deterrent’ device and respect young people’s rights.
  • Access to justice and the right to a fair hearing are fundamental to the rule of law and to democracy itself. Yet legislation published by the Government in 2011 will put publicly funded legal advice and representation beyond the reach of vast swathes of the British population.