Human Rights (Media Watch)
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| Source | Date | Author | Headline (Link) | Quote |
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| ePolitix | 2 August 2005 | ??? | Human rights laws 'failing elderly' | Current legislation is failing to protect older people from human rights abuses, according to a new report.
The Help the Aged study, released on Tuesday, finds that existing human rights legislation is "failing some of the country’s most vulnerable older people". The report says there are "glaring omissions" in the protection of older people. |
| ePolitix | 2 August 2005 | Edward Davie | Cameron: UK should quit human rights convention | David Cameron has said Britain should consider pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights to aid the fight against terrorism.
Interviewed in the FT, the shadow education secretary, says that the move may be necessary in order to make it easier to deport Islamic extremists fermenting hatred in the UK. Cameron said the government should be "free to say" to foreign preachers "they are not welcome here and they should be deported" if they advocate violence. |
