How the Human Rights Act makes Britain harder to govern Opinion The Human Rights Act undermines Britain’s parliamentary democracy and common law tradition by placing the protection of human rights onto an unstable, frequently unknowable basis, says Yuan Yi Zhu In 1999, to protect victims of sexual assault from degrading treatment, parliament enacted legislation to protect complainants in sexual assault cases from being cross-examined in court [...]
We cannot allow Azerbaijan’s vile human rights abuses to be redeemed by hosting Cop29 Opinion Twelve months on from Azerbaijan’s illegal arrest of 23 Armenian leaders, the world needs to take a cold hard look at its human rights abuses, writes Paul Polman