{"id":736475,"date":"2022-07-08T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/weekly-human-rights-news-08-july-2022"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:00:15","slug":"weekly-human-rights-news-08-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/08\/weekly-human-rights-news-08-july-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Human Rights News: 08 July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":" We're continuing to create new resources and information to help you stand up for our Human Rights Act.\r\nOur meeting with the Commissioner for Human Rights\r\nOn 30th June, our Head of Policy, Carlyn, met with the&nbsp;Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic. The Commissioner is creating a report on human rights in the UK and Carlyn shared with her our concerns about the Rights Removal Bill.\r\nWatch Carlyn's video on her meeting with the Commissioner:\r\nYouTube Video https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHoHcgAKsiU\r\nYou can read the Council of Europe's press release&nbsp;here, saying that the United Kingdom \"backsliding on human rights must be prevented\".\r\nYou can also read an article in the Guardian about the Commissioner's concerns&nbsp;here.  \r\nOur Need to Know guide to jury trials\r\nThe Government says its Rights Removal Bill will \"recognise that&nbsp;trial by jury is a fundamental&nbsp;component of fair trials in the UK.\"&nbsp;Article 6 of our Human Rights Act prote... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/weekly-human-rights-news-08-july-2022\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We&#8217;re continuing to create new resources and information to help you stand up for our Human Rights Act.<br \/>\nOur meeting with the Commissioner for Human Rights<br \/>\nOn 30th June, our Head of Policy, Carlyn, met with the&nbsp;Council of Europe Commissioner for&#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\/736475"}],"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=736475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736476,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736475\/revisions\/736476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}