{"id":644485,"date":"2022-05-09T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/may\/09\/consequences-dire-human-rights-act-ditched-northern-ireland-boris-johnson"},"modified":"2022-05-09T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T10:22:50","slug":"consequences-dire-if-human-rights-act-ditched-more-than-50-groups-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/09\/consequences-dire-if-human-rights-act-ditched-more-than-50-groups-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences \u2018dire\u2019 if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: PM is told tearing up act could endanger women and girls and damage peace in Northern Ireland<\/p><p>Tearing up the Human Rights Act would have \u201cdire consequences\u201d including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls and destabilising peace in Northern Ireland, more than 50 organisations have warned.<\/p><p>In a letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/boris-johnson\">Boris Johnson<\/a>, Amnesty, Liberty, the British Institute of Human Rights and others have spelled out the \u201csignificant implications\u201d of repealing the act, which is expected to be announced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/may\/09\/queens-speech-what-bills-to-expect\">Queen\u2019s speech on Tuesday<\/a>, asking for an urgent meeting to discuss the plans.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/may\/09\/consequences-dire-human-rights-act-ditched-northern-ireland-boris-johnson\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/may\/09\/consequences-dire-human-rights-act-ditched-northern-ireland-boris-johnson\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: PM is told tearing up act could endanger women and girls and damage peace in Northern IrelandTearing up the Human Rights Act would have \u201cdire consequences\u201d including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,6,10477,640,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644485"}],"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\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644494,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644485\/revisions\/644494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}