23 July 2021 BIHR’s round-up of the week’s top human rights news, from BIHR and beyond… Please be aware that links to websites outside of BIHR’s website will open in a new tab! News from BIHR Our work with people accessing services Last year, BIHR secured funding to offer free human rights sessions to people accessing, or trying to access, public services, and their loved ones and carers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of these sessions was to equip people with knowledge about human rights which they could then use in their interactions with public services and hopefully achieve positive change in their lives. In April, we invited small, community organisations to apply for our final 10 free human rights sessions. We received applications from lots of fantastic organisations and  selected 10 of them – you can find more information about these organisations here.  This week we delivered three of these free human rights workshops to …

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