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SPEAK UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Add your name to the letter to the new Prime Minister to save your rights.

The Government’s plan to rip up our Human Rights Act means fewer rights for us, more power for them. If enough of us take a stand we can stop them.

Dear Prime Minister

We write to call on you to stop the dangerous plan to repeal our Human Rights Act with a Rights Removal Bill.

The Human Rights Act protects all of us. It protects the most basic and important things – like freedom of expression, liberty and a family life. It ensures that public authorities like Government departments, police forces and local authorities respect our rights, and empowers people to get justice in UK courts when our rights are violated.

The Bill of Rights Bill, better known as the Rights Removal Bill, strips rights away, allows public authorities to ignore fundamental rights and make it much harder to challenge abuse of power.

The Bill attacks the fundamental principle that human rights protect all of us, and puts people in harm’s way, like people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and victims of violence against women and girls. The Bill will give licence to public authorities – like local councils and the police – to ignore people’s rights. The Bill will also make it harder for people to challenge abuse of their rights by introducing a new permission stage that requires a person to prove they have suffered ‘significant disadvantage’ before they can ever get to court.

The previous Government had no mandate for the Rights Removal Bill. The Conservative Party 2019 manifesto promised to ‘update’ the HRA, not rip it up. The devolved Governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales all oppose the Bill, as do numerous cross-party parliamentarians in England. The Government has also completely ignored the independent public consultation on the Bill.

You have the opportunity to create a new legacy – one that protects our rights, instead of continuing down the path of avoiding accountability and absolving the powerful from responsibility. We urge you to make the right decision, drop the Rights Removal Bill, and protect the Human Rights Act instead.

Yours sincerely,