Euro Rights Blog

Tweets & blogs on the UK Human Rights Act, ECHR & other related information. Curated by R A Edwards (Exeter) & Dr N Quenivet (UWE).

[NHS @NHSuk]

Wash your hands more often for 20 seconds with soap and water. Or use hand sanitiser.

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

Just seen this in the Daily Mail. It is 100% not going to happen because you can't suspend the part of the European Convention on Human Rights which any challenge to the retrospective punishment would be based on /1

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

Two can play at these games. MPS sh not waste time next wk footling about with Bill to stop Brexit. What they must do is put the prerogative powers that regulate Parliament on the statute book & take back control from the Govt/Executive #nobrexit

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

This surely cannot be compatible with Article 3 ECHR? 'Shackles and restraints used on hundreds of deportees from UK' https://t.co/Fq0cgdUb4d

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The bitter irony! Those who dribble on about taking back control are 'apparently prepared to suspend a sovereign Parliament in order to force through a Brexit meant to restore the sovereignty of Parliament.' https://t.co/Jqc1Qn3e8L via @LRB

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A bloody inspired idea! ‘Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how’ https://t.co/fLoWhORyCI by @fotoole

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AI lie detector developed for airport security https://t.co/RNISdfkcMq via @financialtimes

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Irish peace is too precious to be squandered by the Brexit ultras | Dearbhail McDonald https://t.co/GZJfJyQxT7

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Europe’s Roma and Sinti people (often labelled as ‘Gypsies’ historically) were targeted by the Nazis for total destruction. https://t.co/mZ77g0C3BO

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Education is key to avoiding the mistakes of the past, say OSCE and UN human rights representatives on Roma Genocide Remembrance Day https://t.co/aoUPj7OYUg

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How London became a test case for using facial recognition in democracies https://t.co/RcF8lVCeQY via @financialtimes

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Drawing the right lessons from the Roma Holocaust https://t.co/3R0Ibx7HBu

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Brexit: Warning over cancer treatment supplies after no deal https://t.co/EK3Tid6ISw

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How the media contributed to the migrant crisis https://t.co/CyBON3PuiZ

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

This is true, but really Remain needs to get its act together pronto!!
'Don’t believe naysayers: Remainers are very much in business' @InFactsOrg https://t.co/oDJV3zcQFV

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

what a surprise!
FactCheck: we can’t find evidence that Dominic Raab warned of no-deal Brexit https://t.co/EgnTNzja5t via @Channel4News

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

can someone please stand up and start shouting (it wont be the weasel Corbyn) "YOU ARE NOT CHURCHILL, fatso, and the EU is not the Third Reich. You do not have a war cabinet because THERE IS NO WAR. How DARE you invoke the sacrifices of those fought one!

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

Boris Johnson has no mandate for a no-deal Brexit. At the 2017 election the Tories promised 'to ensure our departure is smooth and orderly and to agree a deep and special partnership with the EU27' https://t.co/PZ0TOceC4H via @financialtimes

[Euro Rights Blog @eurorights]

@Mr_Matt_Evans Quite. What times we live in. But we cannot let them win. The stakes are far too high.

[Nikolaj Nielsen @NikolajNielsen]

UK had made illegal copies of an EU police database and still insists it wants access to it post Brexit. https://t.co/vwDp2KEEYu