Human Rights
- Created by: AnyaSea
- Created on: 04-01-22 18:30
Human rights are things humans have simply by virtue of being human.
-John Locke believed human rights came from God
-The UDHR is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, declared in 1945
-Our human rights are inalienable, meaning that they can't be taken away
-In 1998, the Blair government put all of the provisions of the ECHR(European Convention of Human Rights0 into British law as the Human Rights Act 1998.
-Sometimes, rights are just by-products of law
-Conservatives want to get rid of the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights
-The Freedom of Information Act 2000 was also brought in by the Blair government: it establishes a citizen's right to access information about them held by public bodies such as the NHS
-Equality Act 2010: established the principle of…
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