{"id":652472,"date":"2022-05-13T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/weekly-human-rights-news-13-may-2022"},"modified":"2022-05-13T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:27:50","slug":"weekly-human-rights-news-13-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/13\/weekly-human-rights-news-13-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Human Rights News: 13 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":" This week&rsquo;s news is a Queen&rsquo;s Speech special edition!\r\nOn Tuesday 10th May 2022, Prince Charles read the Queen&rsquo;s Speech 2022\r\nAt the beginning of every parliamentary session, the Queen reads a speech in the House of Lords. It&rsquo;s read by the Queen but written by ministers and sets out the UK Government plans for the upcoming year. This year it took place on Tuesday 10th May 2022, and it confirmed the Government wants to introduce a new Bill of Rights that would replace our Human Rights Act.\r\n\r\nOur CEO, Sanchita, wrote a response to the speech\r\nIn it, she said: &ldquo;People won't be fooled by the Government's attempts to dress up a new law that lessens their accountability to us, as something positive by calling it a bill of rights. We all know rules matter, not just the rules the Government wants to play by, but the rules that make sure we can hold them to account for treating us with dignity and respect. People won't be fooled; we know that our Human Rights Act ... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/weekly-human-rights-news-13-may-2022\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This week&rsquo;s news is a Queen&rsquo;s Speech special edition!<br \/>\nOn Tuesday 10th May 2022, Prince Charles read the Queen&rsquo;s Speech 2022<br \/>\nAt the beginning of every parliamentary session, the Queen reads a speech in the House of Lords. It&rsquo;s&#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\/652472"}],"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=652472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652473,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652472\/revisions\/652473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}