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No Snoopers' Charter
How would you feel if the content of your emails, texts, calls, social media messages were routinely stored and processed by the Government and retained for future use?
Well it seems they are.
Schedule 7
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is a breathtakingly broad and intrusive power to stop, search and hold individuals at ports, airports and international rail stations. Measures like this are ripe for overuse and abuse.
>> Email your MP now - urge them to repeal the dangerous and misguided Schedule 7
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Blog Action Day: Making a stand for human rights
In the UK the Human Rights Act protects everybody – old and young; rich and poor; you and me. Regrettably, some sections of the press don’t seem to like that very much. Worse still, they ignore important facts to mislead us and attack our proud human rights framework. Such spin is perhaps predictable...
Get blogging for human rights
Calling all bloggers and all budding bloggers! Did you know that Wednesday 16th October is Blog Action Day? Founded in 2007, this global initiative is a free, annual event and the aim is to unite people across the globe via social media. The event brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages by encouraging them to start a conversation about one important global topic on the same day...
Christine Jackson 1942-2013
Christine Jackson, the Chair of the Civil Liberties Trust and my dear friend, passed away peacefully on Friday, 11th October, after battling cancer for many years. She was 71. She first began her association with the National Council for Civil Liberties – today known as Liberty – as an enthusiastic volunteer back in the 1960s...
