{"id":549741,"date":"2022-03-10T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/hra-reform-easy-read-update"},"modified":"2022-03-14T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:11:16","slug":"human-rights-act-reform-easy-read-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/10\/human-rights-act-reform-easy-read-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Act Reform: Easy Read Update"},"content":{"rendered":" On 07 March 2022, one day before the Government&rsquo;s Consultation on the Human Rights Act was due to close, the Government announced a six week extension to submit responses. This means that the deadline for some people is now the 19 April 2022.\r\nIf an Easy Read or audio version of the Consultation would make it easier for you to respond, you can now email HRAreform@justice.gov.uk&nbsp; to ask for the deadline to be extended to 19 April. This also applies to organisations who represent people who may find an Easy Read or audio version helpful.\r\n\r\nClick here for an Easy Read PDF of this information\r\nLast week we took part in two actions about the accessibility of this consultation.\r\nWhat happened last week?\r\nOn 14&nbsp;December 2021, the Government released a Consultation Paper setting out plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights. The Government asked 29 questions to gather people&rsquo;s views on the plans and gave the public 12 weeks to respond, with the Consulta... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/hra-reform-easy-read-update\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On 07 March 2022, one day before the Government&rsquo;s Consultation on the Human Rights Act was due to close, the Government announced a six week extension to submit responses. This means that the deadline for some people is now the 19 April 2022.<br \/>\nI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549741"}],"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\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555213,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549741\/revisions\/555213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}