This week was Advocacy Awareness Week – a week-long campaign coordinated each year by the National Development Team for Inclusion. This year, we were proud to be supporting them as the theme focused on our Human Rights Act and spotlighted some key rights that advocates can use to get better outcomes for the people they support. It ran from 7th - 11th November 2022 and each day spotlighted a different right from our Human Rights Act. Monday 7th November: Right to life (Article 2) Tuesday 8th November: Right to be free from inhuman or degrading treatment (Article 3) Wednesday 9th November: Right to liberty (Article 5) Thursday 10th November Right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence (Article 8) Friday 11th November: Right to be free from discrimination (Article 14) We shared stories of each right in action on our social media Each day, we shared videos depicting real-life stories of our Human Rights Act in action. Each vi...

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