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Articles tagged with: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Labour MP Says Current Law 'Not Sufficient' To Stop Forced Labour Goods Entering UK
Economy
Labour MP Says Current Law "Not Sufficient" To Stop Forced Labour Goods Entering UK
A Labour MP has said that existing legislation to prevent forced labour in UK supply chains is “not sufficient”, as a new committee inquiry is set to examine whether a change to the law is needed.
Senior Tory MP Claims Government Will Be 'Freer Than Ever' To Unlawfully Strip Citizenship Under New Plans
Home affairs
Senior Tory MP Claims Government Will Be "Freer Than Ever" To Unlawfully Strip Citizenship Under New Plans
David Davis has claimed the Nationality and Borders Bill is a "deeply troubling level of Government overreach" after ministers made a last minute change to the legislation.
The Nationality and Borders Bill is littered with measures that will breach human rights
Home affairs
By Harriet Harman MP
The Nationality and Borders Bill is littered with measures that will breach human rights
Parliament considers the Nationality and Borders Bill today in the shadow of the tragic deaths of 27 people who drowned as they tried to cross the Channel. Our asylum and immigration system doesn’t work. And it costs lives.
The forced adoption scandal caused huge pain to thousands of teen mothers and their children – it is time for an apology and public inquiry
Social affairs
By Harriet Harman MP
The forced adoption scandal caused huge pain to thousands of teen mothers and their children – it is time for an apology and public inquiry
The right to family life is one of the most fundamental of human rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights. There could hardly be a more dreadful breach of those rights than forcibly taking a newborn baby from its mother.
The government must tread carefully to ensure care home measures don’t breach human rights
Coronavirus
By Alexandra Ming, Political Consultant
The government must tread carefully to ensure care home measures don’t breach human rights
With Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights warning against blanket bans on care home visits, discrimination against the elderly and disabled people is back on the agenda in lockdown
Confusing and inconsistent Covid rules aren’t working – changes to the Coronavirus Act are needed
Coronavirus
By Harriet Harman MP
Confusing and inconsistent Covid rules aren’t working – changes to the Coronavirus Act are needed
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has found there is confusion over what is law and what is guidance, leaving people open to unequal levels of punishment for breaking the rules. The law needs to be much clearer going forward.
Young people with learning difficulties left ‘open to abuse’ in coronavirus detention, MPs and peers warn
Coronavirus
Young people with learning difficulties left ‘open to abuse’ in coronavirus detention, MPs and peers warn
Young adults with learning difficulties being kept in detention are "highly vulnerable" to abuse during the pandemic, a group of MPs and peers have warned.
Coronavirus: Justice Secretary warns police not to ‘single out’ people on social media for lockdown breaches
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: Justice Secretary warns police not to ‘single out’ people on social media for lockdown breaches
Police officers should not be “singling out” people on social media for flouting the Government’s coronavirus lockdown, the Justice Secretary has said.