On Tuesday 3rd May, we wrote to the prime minister along with more than 50 organisations concerned about the "dire consequences" of the Government's plans to "overhaul" the Human Rights Act. The letter comes following the Government's consultation on Human Rights Act reform, in which it set out its plans to replace our Act with its own "Bill of Rights". Read our CEO, Sanchita's, response to the consultation, in which she says: [The Government's proposals] give the appearance of keeping the same rights whilst attempting to drive a coach and horses through the very ways in which these rights protect each and every one of us across the UK. The “problems” identified in the Government’s consultation centre on technicalities which at times bear little resemblance to reality, with a hodgepodge of selective case law and legal theory, and a romanticisation of the UK’s history, as some sort of licence to remove us from universal standards with the accountability neede...

This post was originally published on British Institute of Human Rights News .