Human Rights

A practical guide to the law in relation to single-sex spaces has been published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today. The guidance aims to help service providers make lawful decisions about any services they offer to women and men separately, by explaining the permitted sex and

The families of victims of a US drone strike in Libya in November 2018 have filed a criminal complaint against the commander of Italian Naval Air Station Sigonella used to carry out the strike. The complaint accuses the Italian commander of the unlawful use of force under both international and Ital

Six British judges have resisted calls to stand down from Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal, after sitting judges Lord Reed and Lord Hodge stepped down from the court over freedom of speech concerns. In a joint statement, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Lord Sumption,

Eradicating discriminatory practice in the use of artificial intelligence and online is among the priorities of a new strategy published today to tackle the most significant equality and human rights challenges in the UK. The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Strategic Plan 2022-25 sets o

President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed has resigned as a judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal a day before he is due to deliver a lecture in Edinburgh on human rights. Lord Reed, who has submitted his resignation along with Lord Hodge, said that he has been "closely monitoring and assessin

Singapore is under pressure to stay the imminent execution of an intellectually disabled man who was found guilty of drug offences. If he is not given clemency, Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a 34-year-old Malaysian who has an IQ of 69, will be put to death.

This year's annual JUSTICE Scotland Human Rights Lecture is taking place in person at 6:30pm on 4 May 2022, at the Signet Library in Edinburgh. This year's lecture is entitled "A light in the North? Reflections on the work of the Scottish National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership", and will be

The proposed repeal of the Human Rights Act would “wind the constitutional clock back to the 1990s” and is “particularly unwise” now because of the actions of Russia in Ukraine, experts have warned. Government plans to replace the legislation with a British Bill of Rights wou

Human rights campaigners have called for the release of lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple convictions for his defence of basic civil and political liberties. Lawyers for Lawyers, an independent and non-political Netherlands-based foundation and the Center

The Welsh and Scottish governments have described the UK government’s plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights as an “ideologically motivated attack on freedoms and liberties”. Ministers have called on the UK government to listen to evidence from civil society an

Amending human rights laws to give priority to domestic law could result in uncertainty, former Supreme Court justice Lord Carnwath has said. An independent review of the Human Rights Act recommended subordinating Strasbourg case law to UK law.

To mark the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is co-hosting a webinar next Monday on the United Nations Guidelines for Lawyers in support of peaceful assemblies. Organised by the IBAHRI, the Geneva Human Rights Platform (GHRP), th

Lithuania has given a Guantanamo Bay detainee €100,000 in compensation after allowing the CIA to torture him at a site near the capital Vilnius. Abu Zubaydah's payout follows a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found that the country had fallen foul of the European Convention

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed Lady Poole’s appointment as chair of the Covid inquiry but said the terms of reference do not go far enough to ensure that a human rights-based approach is taken to the inquiry. Much will depend on the approach taken by Lady Poole, it said.

Amnesty International is to close its Hong Kong offices by the end of the year because of China's controversial national security legislation. The human rights organisation said its work had been made "effectively impossible" by the Hong Kong national security law introduced by Beijing last summer i