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Westminster ‘increasingly antagonistic’ towards human rights, inquiry finds
A campaigner dressed as Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab swings a wrecking ball at a temporary wall on the Southbank, London to share their concerns around the Government's plans to pass the 'Rights Removal Bill', repealing the Human Rights Act 1998. Picture date: Thursday December 8, 2022.
THE Westminster government has adopted an “increasingly antagonistic” approach towards human rights, a European inquiry has found.
Moves by ministers to replace the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights was singled out as a particular cause for alarm by the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Dunja Mijatovic, who warned such a move would weaken human rights in Britain.
Ms Mijatovic also raised concerns about the government’s series of anti-protest Bills, treatment of asylum-seekers, police strip-searching of children and the emergence of a “harsh political and public discourse” against trans people.
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