We must preserve Europe's #HumanRights system; be evidence-based, rejecting false claims and dangerous associations of #migration with criminality. Uphold the law and the universality of rights. Respect for everyone's rights secures a safe state. It is not a zero-sum game. 👇 #ECHR #CouncilofEurope
Glad to meet and prolong the discussion on #migration policies, law and facts with the Minister of Justice of Ireland post-Informal Justice Ministers Conference. #ECHR #HumanRights
There has been a lot in the news about Starmer trying to curb the effect of the ECHR on asylum claims. But despite searching (and reading many sources), I can't find anything on the number of asylum claims this would impact.
Does anyone have any data on this? I can't help thinking it might be a sledgehammer to crack a nut. And it might limit all our rights!
"Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right."
Sneaky underhand bastard. I bet he’s really calling for this because he wants a way to weaken many aspects of human rights, especially trans rights and bodily autonomy. I do hope the #EU and the #ECHR can and will resist. #PerfidiousAlbion #Starmer #Labour
Starmer calls on European leaders to modernise ECHR ahead of gathering | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/starmer-calls-on-european-leaders-to-modernise-echr-ahead-of-gathering/a847997810.html
Glad to meet and prolong the discussion on #migration policies, law and facts with the Minister of Justice of Ireland post-Informal Justice Ministers Conference. #ECHR #HumanRights
We must preserve Europe's #HumanRights system; be evidence-based, rejecting false claims and dangerous associations of #migration with criminality. Uphold the law and the universality of rights. Respect for everyone's rights secures a safe state. It is not a zero-sum game. 👇 #ECHR #CouncilofEurope
There has been a lot in the news about Starmer trying to curb the effect of the ECHR on asylum claims. But despite searching (and reading many sources), I can't find anything on the number of asylum claims this would impact.
Does anyone have any data on this? I can't help thinking it might be a sledgehammer to crack a nut. And it might limit all our rights!
"Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right."
Sneaky underhand bastard. I bet he’s really calling for this because he wants a way to weaken many aspects of human rights, especially trans rights and bodily autonomy. I do hope the #EU and the #ECHR can and will resist. #PerfidiousAlbion #Starmer #Labour
Starmer calls on European leaders to modernise ECHR ahead of gathering | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/starmer-calls-on-european-leaders-to-modernise-echr-ahead-of-gathering/a847997810.html
Mark Elliott sees four areas where Labour's shift to worsen the rights of refugees is intended to confront the European Convention on Human Rights:
Removing obligations around destitution;
Reducing weight of private & family life;
(as noted yesterday) changing the threshold for inhumane & degrading treatment;
Shifting legal practice(s) on refugees.
Elliott sees this as explicitly intending to provoke the Courts into conflict with the Govt.
Today, I exchanged with the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on my recent work. We discussed urgent priorities: defining human-centred pathways to peace in #Ukraine, securing effective #AI oversight, and the critical need to defend the #ECHR and #HumanRights system. 👇
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/exchange-with-the-committee-of-ministers-human-centred-pathways-to-peace-in-ukraine-ai-oversight-and-defending-the-echr
Mark Elliott sees four areas where Labour's shift to worsen the rights of refugees is intended to confront the European Convention on Human Rights:
Removing obligations around destitution;
Reducing weight of private & family life;
(as noted yesterday) changing the threshold for inhumane & degrading treatment;
Shifting legal practice(s) on refugees.
Elliott sees this as explicitly intending to provoke the Courts into conflict with the Govt.
My message at the #HumanRights Seminar in Warsaw today: we must resist the temptation to weaken the #ECHR. We must reaffirm the Convention as the only credible roadmap for human dignity against drivers of volatility like AI, inequality, and violence.👇
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/the-european-human-rights-architecture-a-roadmap-for-navigating-volatile-times
Having proposed the UK will only allow refugees temporary residence, returning them when their home countries are 'safe', it looks like this will involve a shift in the interpretation of Article 3 of the ECHR, which blocks states from returning individuals to a country if they face the risk of torture or 'inhumane or degrading treatment'!
Shabana Mahmood (Home Sec.) believes the definition of 'inhumane & degrading' has expanded 'beyond what is reasonable'!
Today, we celebrate the incredible legacy of the European Convention on #HumanRights as a powerful catalyst of legal and social development across Europe! In my own country Ireland, arguably the most powerful tool of social change in the past century. The Convention system must be protected for future generations. #ECHR75 #ECHR
Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them.
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined Liberty and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/human-rights-echr-treaty-kemi-jenrick-b2851708.html
Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them.
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined Liberty and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/human-rights-echr-treaty-kemi-jenrick-b2851708.html
I intervened in the #ECtHR case on #Georgia’s Transparency of Foreign Influence Law, lodged by 120 civil society organisations, 16 media outlets and 4 individuals. The law restricts #FreedomOfExpression and #FreedomOfAssociation.
👇Read my submission to European Court of Human Rights #ECHR
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/commissioner-o-flaherty-intervenes-in-ecthr-case-on-georgia-s-foreign-influence-law
