{"id":5924,"date":"2015-12-09T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/hrdayevent15"},"modified":"2015-12-09T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:19:26","slug":"international-human-rights-day-celebrating-15-years-of-the-human-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2015\/12\/09\/international-human-rights-day-celebrating-15-years-of-the-human-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"International Human Rights Day: Celebrating 15 Years of the Human Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":" One of the many ways we're celebrating&nbsp;Human Rights Day is through an exciting panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament, kindly hosted by Lord Low and Baroness Prashar. This year Human Rights Day takes on special significance as this year is the 15th anniversary of the UK&rsquo;s Human Rights Act being in force. We will be using this event to celebrate and reflect on 15 years of universal human rights protections here at home.\r\nWe have convened an expert panel of speakers, including Sir Nicolas Bratza, former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Simon Israel, Channel 4 news presenter, Imran Khan, leading human rights lawyer who represented Stephen Lawrence&rsquo;s family, Ray Walker, Executive Director of Nursing from Mersey Care NHS Trust, and Mark Neary, human rights campaigner, and for whom the Human Rights Act was vital in bringing home his son Steven when the authorities unlawfully detained him after respite care.\r\nThe event will have a media focus as Channel ... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/hrdayevent15\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> One of the many ways we&#8217;re celebrating&nbsp;Human Rights Day is through an exciting panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament, kindly hosted by Lord Low and Baroness Prashar. This year Human Rights Day takes on special significance as this year is &#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\/5924"}],"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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}