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Brian Christopher Jones - 18th March 2016
The relationship between Brexit (British exit from the European Union) and human (and other) rights depends on what “rights” are under discussion. Although some in the media have incorrectly conflated Brexit with the scrapping of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), the Tories are largely responsible for much of the confusion over what will happen […]
Oliver Windridge - 13th August 2015
The recent award of reparations by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the applicants in Zongo and others v Burkina Faso cements the case as a landmark for both the Court and for human rights in Africa. The case, which concerns the murder of an investigative journalist and his three work companions, […]
Matt Edbrooke - 20th July 2015
The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 as an expression of universally binding human rights, applicable to “all members of the human family”. Whilst the UN is made up of states, the declaration’s universality pertains to the individual. The UN Charter similarly begins “We the peoples of the United […]