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COMMON VALUES: THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
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We believe in fundamental rights and freedoms - shared values that protect every member of the human family and the society we seek to build together.
Rights and freedoms make sense. Through our Common Values campaign we aim to broaden understanding and respect for human rights values. We explain how the Human Rights Act protects you and counter some of the damaging myths that exist around the Act.The Human Rights Act
The Human Rights Act was passed by Parliament in 1998 and brings the rights from the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms into UK law. It means that you can defend your rights in the UK courts and that public organisations (including the Government, the Police and local councils) must treat everyone equally, with fairness, dignity and respect.
Find out more: Inside the Human Rights Act
Or read Common Sense, our short book of articles about the Human Rights Act by Francesca Klug, Helena Kennedy QC and others.What You Can Do
Fundamental rights and freedoms are common to us all. They are our common values. Help us defend them by supporting the campaign today.
What's not to love?
Visit and share our new microsite to find out all there is to love about the Human Rights Act. Download and print our 'What's Not To Love?' poster (PDF), or contact us for hard copies to display.
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Donate - Liberty is a small organisation, so any gift goes a long way and helps us work to protect our fundamental rights and freedoms.Press Releases
Liberty warns MP who refuses to see veiled constituents of unlawful discrimination
- Liberty lawyers have written to Philip Hollobone MP warning him of potential legal action if he refuses to meet with constituents on the basis of their religious dress.
- 25.07.2010
Justice for victim of modern-day slavery
- Liberty today welcomed a jury’s decision to convict the employer of a Liberty client who had been subjected to forced domestic labour for over two and half years.
- 28.05.2010
Liberty responds to Electoral Commission report
- On election day hundreds of people were left queuing outside polling stations across England. The Electoral Commission has today published a report following an investigation into the problems and the way they were handled.
- 20.05.2010
Liberty responds to reports of commission on Human Rights Act
- Liberty response to reports by the BBC about the creation of a commission to look into the workings of the Human Rights Act.
- 18.05.2010
Liberty supports gay couple in B&B discrimination case
- Liberty today confirmed that it is acting for Michael Black and John Morgan, the gay couple refused accommodation at a Berkshire Bed and Breakfast in March of this year.
- 14.05.2010
Liberty responds to Lib-Con coalition agreement
- Liberty today welcomed the Lib-Con coalition’s proposals on civil liberties but urged the new Government to defend the Human Rights Act and remember both parties’ opposition to the control orders regime.
- 12.05.2010
Bryant inquest abandoned as new information about previous child sex offence revealed
- The inquest into the death of Naomi Bryant – killed in 2005 by convicted sex offender Anthony Rice – was today abandoned as new information about public authorities’ knowledge of the killer was revealed.
- 02.03.2010
Murder inquest secured by Human Rights Act opens today
- An inquest begins today into the death of Naomi Bryant – killed in August 2005 by Anthony Rice, a violent convicted sex offender. Liberty successfully used the protections within the Human Rights Act to argue that an inquest must be held into the events leading up to Naomi’s death, and also that the inquest itself must be as wide-ranging as possible.
- 22.02.2010
Inside the Human Rights Act |
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Materials and Resources
- Visit and share our online resource to find out all there is to love about the Human Rights Act
- Download as a PDF or contact us for hard copies to display in your school or office.
- A short book of articles about the Human Rights Act by Francesca Klug, Helena Kennedy and others, June 2010 (PDF)
- An introduction to the campaign and the human rights values we are standing up for (PDF)
- A leaflet exploding some common myths and misconceptions about the Act (PDF)
Policy Papers
- Liberty’s response to the Ministry of Justice’s Green Paper: Rights and Responsibilities: developing our constitutional framework, February 2010 (PDF)
- Liberty’s evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the
Rights and Responsibilities Green Paper published by the Ministry of Justice, July 2009 (PDF) - Liberty provides Bill briefings and responses to Government consultations on all issues which have implications for human rights and civil liberties.
- A short book written by Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne and published by Liberty in support of the Common Values campaign, October 2009 (PDF)
More Information
- Listen to Campaigns Co-ordinator discuss human rights and young people in this Communication Workers Union Youth podcast, 1 March 2010
- Read Lord Bingham's speech about human rights at Liberty's Common Values conference, June 2009 (PDF)
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