{"id":659728,"date":"2022-05-18T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/were-calling-for-a-human-rights-act-reform-impact-assessment"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:34:01","slug":"were-calling-for-a-human-rights-act-reform-impact-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/18\/were-calling-for-a-human-rights-act-reform-impact-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re calling for a Human Rights Act Reform Impact Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":" On Tuesday 18th May 2022, we joined over 40 advocacy, information and advice charities in writing to the Prime Minister to raise our concerns about plans to scrap our Human Rights Act.\r\nThe letter was organised by the national advocacy charity POhWER to bring attention to the important rights and protections our Human Rights Act provides us all. The letter says:\r\n\r\nWe are calling on a wider study and equality impact assessment to understand the&nbsp;realities on the wider UK population, requesting for a meeting to share case studies&nbsp;and evidence on how HRA benefits the people we support every day through public authority independent scrutiny and mitigates often wider escalations in the legal&nbsp;process.\r\n\r\nClick here to read the full letter.\r\nTo have your charity or organisation added to this letter digitally, be added to the mailing list for future campaign activity or for other queries relating to this letter please contact POhWER Chief Executive at helen.moulinos@pohwer.net.\r... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/were-calling-for-a-human-rights-act-reform-impact-assessment\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On Tuesday 18th May 2022, we joined over 40 advocacy, information and advice charities in writing to the Prime Minister to raise our concerns about plans to scrap our Human Rights Act.<br \/>\nThe letter was organised by the national advocacy charity POhWER &#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\/659728"}],"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=659728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711495,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659728\/revisions\/711495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}