At Liberty we have long fought against the human rights violations that go hand in hand with poverty. Here are five things the Government must do to ensure people’s basic rights are upheld in the UK.
This week further stories emerged of a small but vocal campaign which objects to primary schools telling children about LGBT+ people and families, when they are being taught about relationships.
The police’s use of live facial recognition will be challenged in the UK courts for the first time today as our client Ed Bridges takes on South Wales Police. Ed Bridges is taking South Wales Police to court as its use of facial recognition breaches our right to privacy, equality laws and data protection laws.
Criminalising the mere act of being in a particular place reflects an attempt to sidestep the basic principles of the criminal law, in circumstances where there is insufficient evidence to prosecute people for genuine terrorist activity.
The prohibition on torture is absolute. Any policy which waters down protection and risks making the UK complicit in torture anywhere in the world is unlawful, wrong and makes a mockery of the UK’s claims to be a human rights leader.
The below-signed organisations welcome today’s call by the UN Committee Against Torture for an independent judge-led inquiry into UK complicity in torture and rendition post 9/11.
In her first major announcement since taking office, new Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt put forward plans to opt out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in future armed conflicts and will consult on proposals for a presumption agai
The Supreme Court has this morning ruled that decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) – the court which hears cases on surveillance and the actions of the intelligence agencies – cannot be exempt from judicial review by the High Court. Our intervention in the case helped ensure hugely important court decisions on surveillance and intelligence agencies can be challenged.
Liberty is on the steering committee of a coalition of 80 civil society organisations and was a key contributor to a report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture’s (UNCAT) five-year review of the UK.
