This week’s news includes an update on the Rights Removal Bill and a new video explaining parliamentary sovereignty. News from BIHR We shared an update on the Rights Removal Bill On Thursday 6th October 2022, our Parliamentary & Policy Assistant published an update exploring what has happened since the Rights Removal Bill was introduced, drawing on intel from the Conservative Party Conference in predicting what might happen now the Bill has been “shelved”, and setting out what steps we must now take in order to prepare for, and prevent, future attacks by the UK Government on our Human Rights Act. Read our Rights Removal Bill update. We submitted evidence for a report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights We highlighted the threat that the Rights Removal Bill poses to important rights like the rights to work, standard of living and education in a recent submission to Just Fair. Just Fair is coordinating a report to the UN Commit…

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