Press releases Archives - Page 2 of 5 - Rights & Security International

123 NGOs write to Parliament advising it scraps the Bill of Rights Bill

Press releases

Signatories of letter led by Rights & Security International include Amnesty International, Liberty, Muslim Council of Britain London, 1 March February 2024 – A group of eleven organisations spearheaded by... Read more

UK: Government should not use new laws to let its officials violate human rights with impunity

Press releases

(London, 10 May 2022) - The UK government risks creating large accountability gaps for human rights violations, Rights & Security International (RSI) said today following the announcement of planned legislation... Read more

Government’s Prevent strategy is hindering environmental and anti-racism movements, as well as Muslim groups, new research finds

Press releases

Wednesday 23rd March Today Rights & Security International (RSI) publishes a new report that starkly reveals the ways in which the government’s Prevent strategy hinders free speech and discourages non-violent political... Read more

UN experts tell UK its citizenship-stripping powers could discriminate and break international law

Press releases

(London, 17 February 2022) – Top UN human rights experts, including specialised experts on racism and human trafficking, told the UK government last night that its citizenship-stripping practices and attempts to... Read more

UK must repatriate all British children and women from detention camps in northeast Syria now

Press releases

Authorities should also avoid separating families Rights & Security International (RSI) welcomes the news that the UK government repatriated three British children from detention camps in northeast Syria on Monday... Read more

UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights Accepts RSI’s Explanation of Why the Human Rights Act Should Apply Overseas

Press releases

On 23 June 2021, the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) released their submission to the government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review, pointing to RSI’s materials to explain... Read more

123 NGOs write to Parliament advising it scraps the Bill of Rights Bill

UK: Government should not use new laws to let its officials violate human rights with impunity

Government’s Prevent strategy is hindering environmental and anti-racism movements, as well as Muslim groups, new research finds

UN experts tell UK its citizenship-stripping powers could discriminate and break international law

UK must repatriate all British children and women from detention camps in northeast Syria now

UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights Accepts RSI’s Explanation of Why the Human Rights Act Should Apply Overseas

UK: New “Legacy” Plans May Violate International Law

Legacy Practitioners Open Letter: legacy commitments in NDNA must be returned to

UK: Concerns about Impunity in Northern Ireland Following Queen’s Speech

UK: Investigate human trafficking of British children and women in Syrian camps

Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship

Home Office refuses to disclose how many British women have been stripped of citizenship

UK: Don’t renew Coronavirus Act provisions that harm rights

Rights and Security International’s Statement on the UK’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

RSI Briefs the House of Lords Committee on the Impact of the Overseas Operations Bill on the Good Friday Agreement

Follow Belgium by repatriating children and women from squalid Syrian camps, RSI urges governments

RSI Submits Evidence to the Independent Human Rights Act Review

UK Supreme Court’s ruling in Shamima Begum case is inconsistent with human rights

Court tells 47 European countries: investigate your soldiers’ alleged war crimes in Afghanistan