Safety of UK Women Endangered by Changes to Human Rights Act: Critics Warn
More than 50 organizations have warned in a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that amending the Human Rights Act would have “dire consequences,” including the destabilization of Northern Ireland.
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More than 50 organizations have warned that British plans to revise its participation in the European Court of Human Rights would have “dire consequences,” including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls, and will also destabilize peace in Northern Ireland, reports The Guardian. The government argues changes called for in a review of the Human Rights Act, which Parliament passed in 1998 to put it in synch with the European human rights convention, are needed to ensure that the UK has a “democratic shield” against adverse judgments in Strasbourg, where the Court of Human Rights is headquartered, and that “quintessentially British human rights, such as freedom of expression” are protected.
Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s chief executive, warns that in weakening the act, the UK is following in the footsteps of countries with authoritarian leaders such as Russia, Hungary and Poland. “Tearing up the Human Rights Act will unleash a Pandora’s Box of dire consequences for the UK and we desperately urge the prime minister to reconsider.”
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