Theresa May has dropped a bombshell in the final week of 2016, announcing plans to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Keep reading to catch up on that story and any others you may have missed this week!
Happy New Year to all of our readers, and best wishes for what is sure to be an interesting 2017!
Human rights in the news
- Theresa May to fight 2020 election on plans to take the UK out of the ECHR [The Telegraph]
- Are we heading towards a post-human rights world? [BBC]
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Ministers put British bill of rights plan on hold until after Brexit [The Guardian]
The week at RightsInfo
- Theresa May Plans UK Withdrawal From European Convention on Human Rights – Report [RightsInfo]
- 2016’s Top UK Human Rights Stories [RightsInfo]
Twitter highlights
The fragility of human rights, even here in the U.K., and how we must protect them in 2017 #happy2017 https://t.co/w7T0KP2uTI
— Sarah Inge Parker (@SarahIngeParker) January 1, 2017
"We forget that the cruel barbarian is not behind us but always underneath us ready to rise up" https://t.co/s2abBvKmCn
— Simon Tonks (@tonkssimon) December 31, 2016
This is great. European Court of Human Rights visualised via @rights_info pic.twitter.com/N0vK93bteI https://t.co/6tNDLHtsvJ via @rights_info
— Maria Lourenço (@MariaLourenco74) December 30, 2016
RightsInfo videos
Check out and share these two great videos on the ECHR and its origins!
Apparently Theresa May wants to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights. Please retweet this on why human rights matter pic.twitter.com/179VFWo0lJ
— RightsInfo (@rights_info) December 29, 2016
Theresa May reportedly wants to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights. Please retweet this on the ECHR's Tory origins pic.twitter.com/OhCFUBcNHk
— RightsInfo (@rights_info) December 28, 2016
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