{"id":5904,"date":"2016-06-10T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/pledgequeensspeech"},"modified":"2016-06-10T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:08:38","slug":"over-130-groups-pledge-support-for-the-human-rights-act-following-the-queens-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2016\/06\/10\/over-130-groups-pledge-support-for-the-human-rights-act-following-the-queens-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 130 groups pledge support for the Human Rights Act following the Queen\u2019s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":" 18 May 2016\r\n  As the Government reaffirms its commitment to replacing the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights over 130 groups stand together in their support of the Act by launching the Human Rights Pledge, which reads:\r\n\r\n &ldquo;We believe in fundamental human rights and freedoms &ndash; shared values that protect every member of the human family and the society we seek to build together.  &ldquo;Human rights underpin our democracy, hold Governments to account and require that everyone&rsquo;s dignity is equally respected.   &ldquo;We pledge to oppose any government plans to repeal our Human Rights Act &ndash; in so doing we stand firm on guaranteeing universal human rights protections for generations to come.&rdquo;\r\n\r\nThe broad and varied group of signatories include charities supporting children, older people, carers, victims of trafficking and slavery, disabled people and asylum-seekers and refugees, as well as national groups representing psychiatrists, teachers, footbal... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/pledgequeensspeech\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 18 May 2016<br \/>\n  As the Government reaffirms its commitment to replacing the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights over 130 groups stand together in their support of the Act by launching the Human Rights Pledge, which reads:<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;We believe i&#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\/5904"}],"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=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}