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    Common Values



    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

    • 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 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
    • 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