Human Rights Act

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• Trans Pride Brighton defines key year for emerging community

  8 Sep 2014: Encompassing Europe’s first ever transgender pride march, Trans Pride Brighton focused on celebrating new-found visibility and preparing for challenges ahead

• Human rights legislation in the UK: a cut-out-and-keep guide

  1 Sep 2014:

  Ever wondered what the difference is between the human rights convention and the Human Rights Act? This may help

• Rape case warning over Tory plan to rewrite human rights law

  27 Aug 2014:

  Campaign backed by celebrities and activists says legislation has been used to ensure police properly investigate rape cases

• Met police to pay John Worboys victims compensation for degrading treatment

  23 Jul 2014: Two women awarded £41,250 by London high court after judge finds failures in investigation of sexual assaults

• Conservative party 'headbangers' have won, says Nick Clegg

  17 Jul 2014: Tories want to 'line up with Vladimir Putin and other tyrants' by tearing up UK's long tradition of human rights, says deputy PM

• Tories 'to challenge European court with British bill of rights'

  17 Jul 2014: Reported plan risks UK's expulsion from the Council of Europe and could even threaten Britain's membership of EU

• The Guardian view on the reshuffle and Europe

  15 Jul 2014: Editorial: David Cameron has armed the Tory party for battles over Europe and human rights that could define Britain for years to come

• Charity Commission clarifies its position on the Human Dignity Trust

  11 Jul 2014: Letter: As the tribunal acknowledges in its decision, we rejected the charity's original application for reasons grounded in charity law, not moral judgment

• The Guardian view: loving liberty means embracing human rights

  3 Jul 2014:

  Editorial: The declaration of independence is heading for London, to celebrate Magna Carta's birthday. But the European convention also deserves its place in the scripture of liberty

• Labour plan to shift power back to courts: a nudge in the wrong direction?

  5 Jun 2014: Joshua Rozenberg: Shadow justice minister believes judges have become too bound by the European court of human rights and need guidance

• The Charity Commission doesn't know what charity is

  5 Jun 2014: Geoffrey Robertson: Thanks to one deeply ignorant decision, any organisation with a human rights agenda stands to lose its charitable status

• Where's the worst place to be a worker? Most of the world

  22 May 2014:

  David Wearing: A new index of employment rights makes grim reading and exposes the link between rights and inequality

• Ukip pressured me to take down a tweet – and now I'm really up for a fight

  14 May 2014:

  Michael Abberton: Oppressors though history have always feared a well-informed population, and this attempt to curtail my right to free expression is too much – it's time to act

• MoD broke law in holding Afghan prisoners too long, judge rules

  2 May 2014: Ruling, which was attacked by the defence secretary and chief of the defence staff, leaves MoD open to compensation claims

• U-turn over human rights protection for home care

  24 Apr 2014: Amendment to care bill tabled to extend protection of Human Rights Act to people receiving state-funded care at home

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