{"id":1184611,"date":"2023-08-20T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/aug\/20\/heartless-government-fails-to-fill-two-key-human-rights-watchdog-roles"},"modified":"2023-08-20T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T05:00:39","slug":"heartless-government-fails-to-fill-two-key-human-rights-watchdog-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/20\/heartless-government-fails-to-fill-two-key-human-rights-watchdog-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heartless\u2019 government fails to fill two key human rights watchdog roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say rape and trafficking victims have been betrayed by the Tories\u2019 failure to appoint commissioners to defend them  <\/p>\n<p>Government ministers have \u201cheartlessly\u201d betrayed rape and trafficking victims after failing to fill two key independent watchdog roles designed to defend human rights, campaigners have said.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, the role of the victims\u2019 commissioner for England and Wales will have been left vacant for a year, at a time when vital legislation is passing through parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/aug\/20\/heartless-government-fails-to-fill-two-key-human-rights-watchdog-roles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say rape and trafficking victims have been betrayed by the Tories\u2019 failure to appoint commissioners to defend them  Government ministers have \u201cheartlessly\u201d betrayed rape and trafficking victims after failing to fill two key independent watc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2816,6,3383,640,15495,14,22977,520,1313,1314,1,31601],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184703,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184611\/revisions\/1184703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}