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Posts Tagged: Human Rights

Educational diversity in North Korea

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger

By Peter Franklin | 20 October 2014 | 5 comments

International institutions should not equate membership with morality

We must stop conflating international institutions with the ideals they profess to uphold, for the former rarely live up to the latter.

By Henry Hill | 4 October 2014 | 41 comments

Spencer Pitfield: A UK Bill of Rights – the CPF’s first policy success in advance of the 2015 manifesto

Our discussion paper ‘A Magna Carta for 2015’ received a tremendous response from in excess of 200 CPF groups nationwide in July 2013.

By Spencer Pitfield | 3 October 2014 | 9 comments

Charlie Elphicke MP: We need responsibilities as well as rights – and to decide them ourselves

British judges in British courts should have the final say on British laws passed by the British Parliament.

By Charlie Elphicke | 3 October 2014 | 20 comments

Grayling takes the Conservatives to the brink of ECHR exit – a giant step away from Europe

Macmillan and Heath and Thatcher (in government, anyway) went one way. Now Cameron is going the other.

By Paul Goodman | 3 October 2014 | 150 comments

Chris Grayling MP: Our plan to protect human rights – while making the European Court advisory only

We hope they will accept our plans. But if they cannot, then we will invoke our treaty rights to withdraw from the Convention altogether,

By Chris Grayling MP | 3 October 2014 | 39 comments

Grayling’s message of toughness and tenderness

“It’s where we need to be as a Party. Tough but compassionate.”

By Harry Phibbs | 30 September 2014 | 22 comments

Fiona Hodgson: Mass murder, missing loved ones, rape, grief, trauma. A terrible legacy in Bosnia.

A report from this year’s Project Maya.

By Fiona Hodgson | 12 September 2014 | 7 comments

Heresy of the week: A defence of ‘whataboutery’

Few questions do more to test and clarify arguments than ‘what about?’ – especially when it comes to matters of foreign policy.

By Peter Franklin | 22 August 2014 | 4 comments

Beware the bad conservatives

A new spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of populism.

By Peter Franklin | 19 August 2014 | 16 comments

Benedict Rogers: The new Foreign Secretary must show us that he’s more than a bean counter

The question for you in this Open Letter is whether you will continue, develop and deepen that Conservative pledge to put human rights at the heart of foreign policy.

By Benedict Rogers | 15 August 2014 | 14 comments

The rise of the judges is a failure of democracy

Sweepingly-worded legislation passes power from elected leaders to unaccountable judges and the pressure groups whose cases they preside over.

By Henry Hill | 14 August 2014 | 36 comments

Grieve suggests that we can’t both be in and out of the ECHR at the same time. He’s right.

For a government to legislate effectively to defy the court’s rulings while continuing to recognise its authority would be a contradiction in terms.

By Paul Goodman | 22 July 2014 | 89 comments

With Grieve gone, what next for the ECHR and the British Bill of Rights?

With the reshuffle barely over, noises are already being made about ditching the meddlesome Convention and Court. But how?

By Mark Wallace | 17 July 2014 | 48 comments

Edward Leigh MP: The lesson of these Euro-elections: Modernisation has failed. Get back to real conservatism. End the Coalition now.

My programme: Let grammars expand. Means-test incidental health costs. The Green Deal is a joke. Immigration is still a farce. Apologise for same sex marriage.

By Sir Edward Leigh MP | 26 May 2014 | 164 comments

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