{"id":5864,"date":"2017-05-03T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/uprnews742017"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:37:23","slug":"bihr-flags-the-denigration-of-human-rights-laws-with-united-nations-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/05\/03\/bihr-flags-the-denigration-of-human-rights-laws-with-united-nations-members\/","title":{"rendered":"BIHR flags the denigration of human rights laws with United Nations members"},"content":{"rendered":" 7 April 2017\r\n\r\n Today, our Deputy Director, Sanchita Hosali, will be giving evidence about human rights at home to 30 member states of the United Nations at a special session in Geneva. Focusing on domestic issues, Sanchita will be discussing how the government&rsquo;s denigration of the Human Rights Act, isn&rsquo;t simply about our law, but is a denigration of international universal standards, something which should be of concern to all UN member states. &nbsp; Organised by UPR-Info, this pre-session provides a small number of non-governmental groups with the opportunity to present their views on how well the UK is doing ahead of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) examination on 4 May. The UPR is a process by which the&nbsp;human rights record&nbsp;of all 193 UN member states is regularly scrutinised at the UN&nbsp;Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UK's next review takes place on 4 May 2017. In the run up to this process, non-governmental groups such as BIHR can submit reports t... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/uprnews742017\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 April 2017<\/p>\n<p> Today, our Deputy Director, Sanchita Hosali, will be giving evidence about human rights at home to 30 member states of the United Nations at a special session in Geneva. Focusing on domestic issues, Sanchita will be discussing how the&#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\/5864"}],"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=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}