In light of the current news we've compiled some information and safety advice for barristers, as well as links to wellbeing and mental health support. We'll keep the information updated. Read more: https://t.co/oZzuyhQpZ2
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Miah [2024] EWCA Civ 186 - important Court of Appeal decision today, on Universal Credit. Government loses ‘backdating’ appeal. Court describes backdating UC claims process as ‘very unsatisfactory’
Pre-settled status and benefit entitlement: Supreme Court has dismissed DWP's application for permission to appeal in SSWP v AT. So EU cits with PSS have a right to live here in dignified conditions and that can be a basis for entitlement to benefit
1/ From today, fees to apply for status are going up, some by as much as 35%.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, this is a cruel and dangerous attack on people making their lives in the UK 🧵
https://t.co/DM5ZpfXYur
During previous UPR cycles, France had called on Bangladesh to promptly implement the accepted recommendations on:
📌Extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and against torture
📌Freedom of expression
📌Security of human rights defenders
https://t.co/bKMH6KgSvL
Bangladesh: Ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Bangladesh this week, @amnesty urges President Macron to raise human rights concerns with Bangladeshi government, including the implementation status of the recommendations France made to Bangladesh in the last UPR cycle.
Human rights in Bangladesh have taken a turn for worse as the country heads towards a general election next year.
📌The Cyber Security Act has replaced the Digital Security Act while retaining all the repressive features,
📌Extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances still continue,
📌Authorities continue to crackdown on the right freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,
📌Organizations such as Odhikar and activists who speak out on human rights violations continue to be persecuted.
Our UPR submission on Bangladesh 👇includes comprehensive analysis and recommendations in ways that Bangladeshi authorities should take action to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights in the country.
https://t.co/LcdYEtVxM2
70 years since the European Convention on Human Rights entered into force on 3rd September 1953. Statement of the President of the Court, Síofra O’Leary
https://t.co/kJV3yGmLF0
#ECHR#CEDH#ECHRpress
BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: Amnesty International is deeply concerned to learn from media reports that the Cabinet yesterday approved the final draft of the Cyber Security Act (CSA) without making any substantial changes to the draft that was published earlier this month for comment.
The call for feedback on the draft CSA was a mere tick box exercise if substantial inputs by civil society were not taken into consideration.
The Cabinet must not push through the CSA as it is largely a replication of the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) that preceded it and retains repressive features which have been used to threaten and restrict the rights to freedom of expression, privacy and liberty in Bangladesh.
Amnesty International urges the Bangladeshi authorities to substantially amend the draft CSA before taking it any further and align it with international human rights law and standards.
https://t.co/9Y7di5uOiL
Bangladesh: Today, on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we call upon the government of Bangladesh to urgently end and criminalise the practice of enforced disappearances and ensure truth, justice and reparations for the victims and their families.
Enforced disappearances violate numerous human rights, including the rights to life, freedom from torture, liberty, and a fair trial.
Bangladesh should ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and accept the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances' request to conduct an official visit to Bangladesh.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances #Stillnoanswers #EndImpunityNow
📢 ILPA has written to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to express our increasing concern regarding the safety of immigration practitioners and the growing climate of hostility towards them👇(1/2)
https://t.co/fTUmvrx5Y0
Bangladesh: We've said it before. We are saying it again. 📢📢📢
Law enforcement authorities must not use violence against peaceful protesters.
The right to protest is a basic right, and the authorities should facilitate it without any unwarranted interference. #ProtectTheProtest
The crackdown against the opposition in #Bangladesh should be ringing alarm bells internationally that January’s elections will not be free and fair.
Read @astroehlein’s Daily Brief: https://t.co/8TQBM8f292
Police in Dhaka fired tear gas Saturday to disperse supporters of Bangladesh's opposition party who were holding sit-in protests at all the entry points to the capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (AP)