- Liberty: Bedroom tax breaches right to family life
Today Liberty announced it will seek Judicial Review of the Government’s controversial new “bedroom tax” policy based on the impact on separated famil...
- Liberty rewards human rights heroes in annual awards ceremony
Liberty will honour outstanding human rights leaders at the annual Liberty Human Rights Awards, which will be held at Southbank Centre on Monday evening. Th...
- Yarls Wood families' detention ruled unlawful
Today at the High Court, two families held at Yarls Wood Immigration Detention Centre have succeeded in their claims that they were unlawfully detained. Sup...
- Partnership between Liberty and young racing driver
Liberty’s logo will grace the car of 16-year-old Alice Powell, a racing driver and the only female in Formula Renault UK. Alice is a member of the Manor C...
- Liberty urges Government action, not empty promises, for child asylum seekers
The human rights group Liberty today urged the Government to make radical policy changes to protect the rights of child asylum seekers, after the Government...
- Liberty brings nationwide campaign against the “Mosquito” to Plymouth City Council
At a special hearing on Tuesday 26 August, Liberty will urge Plymouth City Council to ban the “Mosquito device,” which forces young people out of public...
- Court Judgment on Government’s ‘Anti-Yob’/ Anti-Child Policy
The Court of Appeal today ruled on the case of ‘W’, the child who won his challenge to the Government’s curfew power.In July 2005 the High Court ruled...
- New crime statistics disappoint on juvenile ASBOs and minority rights
New Home Office quarterly crime figures released today reveal that its influence on policy and policing has had a negative effect on children while ethnic m...
- Senior Government advisors question policies on ASBOs & 'naming and shaming'
In Channel 4’s forthcoming 30 Minutes: Making Our Kids Criminals (transmission Friday 24th February at 7.35pm) Professor Rod Morgan, the government’s ap...
- New “Respect Action Plan” measures off-target
The Government’s new “Respect Action Plan” contains chilling proposals which could vilify the vulnerable and poor, human rights group Liberty said tod...