{"id":710607,"date":"2022-06-21T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/bor-22june2022"},"modified":"2022-06-22T03:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:17:37","slug":"people-will-not-be-fooled-by-the-governments-anti-rights-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/21\/people-will-not-be-fooled-by-the-governments-anti-rights-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"People will not be fooled by the Government&#8217;s Anti-Rights Bill"},"content":{"rendered":" 22 June 2022\r\n\r\nToday the Government has published its Anti-Bill of Rights, the latest step in plans to reduce their responsibilities to uphold the human rights protections people rely on every day across the UK.\r\nCommenting on the publication of this new proposed bill of rights, Sanchita Hosali, CEO of the British Institute of Human Rights said:\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Everyone in the UK, wants to be able to live with dignity and respect, where those who hold power follow the rules; this is what our law, the Human Rights Act, helps secure. Sadly, what we now face is a UK Government intent on ripping up the rulebook.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&ldquo;Rather than championing our human rights protections, this new anti-rights bill is a power grab from the Government. Unsupported by the evidence of people across the UK, and in direct opposition to the findings of the Independent Review it set up, which concluded there was no case for replacing our Human Rights Act.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&ldquo;The Human Rights Act has worked w... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/bor-22june2022\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 June 2022<\/p>\n<p>Today the Government has published its Anti-Bill of Rights, the latest step in plans to reduce their responsibilities to uphold the human rights protections people rely on every day across the UK.<br \/>\nCommenting on the publication of this&#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\/710607"}],"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=710607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710921,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710607\/revisions\/710921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}