There are now 11.4 million people aged 65 or over in the UK – nearly 1/5 of the population. Over 500,000 elderly people are abused in the UK every year. But human rights can protect older people in a number of ways, says Age UK.

Responding to the Government announcement at Home Office Questions to Unicef UK’s family reunification campaign, Mark Devlin, Chief Operating Officer at Unicef UK, said:

With revelations that Saudi Arabia is using British munitions to kill thousands of Yemeni civilians, many of them children, SNP’s Margaret Ferrier is fighting for an arms embargo.

The Deputy Head of the University of Exeter Law School Richard Edwards offers his thoughts on proposed changes to the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a new British Bill of Rights.

Lib Dem Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Tom Brake MP writes following his parliamentary event in support of Mohamedou Slahi, who has spent 12 years imprisoned in Guantanamo and faces a review board hearing shortly.