Human rights and legal wrongs

Jul 2, 2022 by

by Niall Gooch, The Critic: You probably haven’t heard of Harry Hammond. It is nearly twenty years since his death in August 2002, shortly after his conviction under the Public Order Act 1986. Mr Hammond’s “offence” took place in...

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Human rights have done nothing to defend our freedoms

Jun 25, 2022 by

by Luke Gittos, spiked: The UK has become a more illiberal place since the Human Rights Act was passed. The UK government has published legislation which will abolish the Human Rights Act and introduce a new British Bill of Rights. It...

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European Union Backs UN Resolution to Make Abortion a Human Right

Jun 10, 2022 by

by Stefano Gennarini JD, C-Fam: The European Union is stealthily backing a UN resolution to declare a human right to “safe abortion.” Countries are negotiating a resolution that has language calling on states to promote “the human rights...

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A Suicide Foretold: How Social Justice Rhetoric is Turning People off Human Rights

Mar 24, 2022 by

by Nicolas Agostini, Quillette: Something strange is happening to the human rights discourse. Few people are paying attention, but like a cat whose hair bristles before the unknown, close observers have switched to alert mode. What are we...

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How the Charter of Rights let Canada down

Feb 21, 2022 by

by Yuan Yi Zhu, UnHerd: The document has reduced our definition of freedom to box ticking. If Canada has a sacred cow, akin to the NHS in the UK, it is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — a constitutional bill of rights added to...

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More human than the humanists

Feb 13, 2022 by

by Tim Dawson, The Critic: Church attendance is on the rise among non-Christian, non-believing millennials. Evensong at Manchester Cathedral attracts a disparate crowd. There are people you wouldn’t expect, like a young mother, all blonde...

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