The Government continues to treat European human rights, incorporated by the Human Rights Act (HRA) into UK law, like supermarket products with a use-by date: we can enjoy them for now, but the government reserves the right to take them away after Brexit. The...
His Honour Jeremy Roberts QC, formerly a judge at the Central Criminal Court, member of the Parole Board, offers reflection on what the Worboys case means for the independence of the Parole Board, in a post published at the British Academy blog ahead of the...
“Violence against women and girls is the most common violation of the human rights of women, in Europe and beyond.” In the UK, it is estimated 4.3 million women have...
An exciting interdisciplinary symposium took place on 12 February 2018, at the Friends’ House in Euston, London, on ‘The Body and Human Rights’, hosted by Brunel University’s Global Lives Research Centre, the ‘Knowing Our Rights’ (KOR) research project, and the...
CALL FOR PAPERS Hosted by Brunel University London’s Global Lives Research Centre, Knowing Our Rights research project, and Britain in Europe think tank. Convened by Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Meredith Jones In recent decades the body has become a major area of...
Re: Boukrourou and others v France (application no. 30059/15). The case involves a death of an individual who was suffering from several psychiatric disorders who became a victim of ill-treatment during a police operation. The victim’s family were the applicants in...
Around 5m European citizens affected by the outcome of the UK referendum (EU citizens in the UK, and British citizens in the EU) have been living in a state of uncertainty for more than 500 days. Months on from the EU referendum, they have had little, if any,...
This piece by Prof Julian Petley on 'What Rights? Whose Responsibilities?', published in the journal 'Soundings', was written shortly after the Ministry of Justice in 2009 produced its Green Paper Rights and Responsibilities: Developing Our Constitutional Framework,...
The ECHR blog, maintained by Antoine Buyse, of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, at the University of Utrecht, has just published a list of recent academic publications on the European Convention on Human Rights, exploring issues such as: - the ability of the...
In a new blog for 'Open Democracy', Julian Petley, BiE expert and Professor of Screen Media and Journalism in the School of Arts at Brunel University London, argues that now is the time to defend human rights in the fight against terror – not throw them away. He...
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