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• Society Guardian: We have a duty to our children to protect human rights
  

  Liberty's Director writes about the importance of preserving the Human Rights Act, 15 December 2010
  

• The Times: Legal aid doesn't matter - until you need it
  

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes in The Times student law section about the danger of cuts to legal aid, 19 October 2010 (PDF)
  

• Conference Paper: Big Brother and Employment
  

  A paper about surveillance in the workplace delivered by Liberty's Legal Officer Corinna Ferguson at the Industrial Law Society Annual Conference, September 2010 (PDF)
  

• Guardian Comment is free - Was it right to scrap the ContactPoint child database?

  Liberty's Policy Director Bella Sankey argues that scrapping Contact Point was right, 13 August 2010
• Guardian Law - An MP's posturing talk of a burqa ban

  Liberty Legal Director James Welch explains why Philip Hollobone MP's refusal to meet burqa-wearing constituents is unlikely to gain traction in multicultural Britain, 26 July 2010
• Guardian Liberty Clinic - Why is Birmingham's CCTV scheme 'unlawful'?

  Liberty Legal Officer Corinna Ferguson explains why Liberty believes the Project Champion CCTV scheme in Birmingham is not only wrong, but unlawful in its implementation, 6 July 2010
• Guardian Comment is free - Scrapping section 44 is a relief to all

  Liberty Legal Officer Corinna Ferguson explains that the move to end stop and search will be welcomed by many groups across the country – even the police. 9 July 2010
• The Times - Thunderer column about torture inquiry

  Liberty Director write about the announcement of an inquiry into the Uk's involvement in torture overseas in The Times, 7 July 2010 (PDF)
• BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Balloon Debate

  Liberty Director represents suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in R4 Woman's Hour 'women in politics' balloon debate, 16 June 2010
• BBC Question Time

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti appears on the panel alongside the new Home Secretary Theresa May, Labour's Caroline Flint, Ming Campbell for the Liberal Democrats and the journalist and writer Douglas Murray, 20 May 2010.
• The Times - Will Theresa be caught by the securocrats?

  Short news video and comment piece by Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti, explaining that deportation is no substitute for a fair trial, 19 May 2010
• Bristol University Annual Politics Lecture - Common Values, Common Ground

  Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti makes the case for the Human Rights Act in this lecture at Bristol University, March 2010 (PDF)
• The Times - Plain common sense

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes about the Equality Bill, March 2010
• CWU Youth Podcast - Common Values and Young People

  Listen to Liberty's Campaigns Co-ordinator discuss human rights and young people in this Communication Workers Union Youth podcast, 1 March 2010
• Comment is Free - The Human Rights Act does protect us

  Officials are using the HRA as a scapegoat and those who hastily call for its replacement should pause to reconsider, writes Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti, 2 March 2010
• Comment is Free - Jon Gaunt win marks Ofcom's card

  Legal Officer Corinna Ferguson explains Liberty's intervention in the case of former TalkSport "shock jock" Jon Gaunt, 28 January 2010
• Wilberforce Lecture - Common Values: The Defence for Rights and Freedoms in Britain

  Video of Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti delivering the 2010 Wilberforce lecture, as Liberty was awarded the Wilberforce Medal to commemorate our 75 years of work for human rights.
• The Times - Freedom must apply to all faiths and none

  Short news video and comment piece by Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti about protecting freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the case of Nadia Eweida, 19 January 2010