2nd March 2020
On 25 February 2020, the UK Government confirmed that it will appoint the Independent Reviewer of Prevent through u201cfull and open competition,u201d meaning u201cthe Home Secretary will be advised on... Read more
6th February 2020
Rights Watch UK (RWUK) is taking legal action to ensure that the Government holds a genuinely effective and independent review of Prevent. Yasmine Ahmed, Director of Rights Watch (UK) states:... Read more
28th January 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Rights Watch (UK) expresses grave concern over arbitrary arrest of PTM leader in Pakistan Following the arrest of Pakistani human rights leader, Manzoor Pashteen, on Monday 27 January,... Read more
20th December 2019
The Government has today confirmed it will not be defending the proceeding launched by Rights Watch (UK) challenging Lord Carlile’s independence in the role as Prevent Reviewer. Lord Carlile’s appointment has now... Read more
11th December 2019
Rights Watch (UK), along with Liberty, have sent a letter to the Independent Prevent Review, informing it they would not be filling out the Reviews online questionnaire, which forms the... Read more 4th December 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Government concedes permission for Rights Watch (UK)’s application to judicially review the appointment of Lord Carlile as Independent Reviewer of Prevent to proceed The Government has conceded... Read more
30th October 2019
On 23 October 2019, Rights Watch (UK) and Save the Children hosted an urgent briefing on the situation of the British women and children stranded in Islamic State-affiliated camps in... Read more 21st October 2019
PRESS RELEASE – Rights Watch (UK) launches its challenge to the Government’s independent review of Prevent The human rights charity Rights Watch (UK) has launched a judicial review challenge to... Read more
29th August 2019
Human rights charity Rights Watch (UK) (RW(UK)) have sent a letter before action to the government to challenge the appointment of the Independent Reviewer of Prevent, Lord Carlile of Berriew.... Read more 16th November 2018
JOINT STATEMENT The government’s Prevent Strategy – which forms one strand of the government’s overarching counter terrorism strategy, CONTEST – seeks to pre-empt acts of terrorism by identifying those at risk of... Read more
20th July 2018
Responding to the revelations that the British Government uses children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources, Rosalind Comyn, Legal and Policy Officer at Rights Watch (UK), commented: “Enlisting children as foot... Read more
21st June 2017
Rights Watch (UK) urges Government to address human rights implications of Prevent before pressing ahead with counter extremism agenda outlined in Queen’s Speech. Today, the Queen’s Speech affirmed that the Conservative minority... Read more
22nd September 2016
On 13 July 2016, RW(UK) launched its landmark Report, Preventing Education: Human Rights and UK Counter-Terrorism Policy in Schools (link below) at an event at the Houses of Parliament. The event was... Read more
25th August 2016
Today the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee added its voice to the growing and urgent calls for an independent review of the Government’s decision to place the Prevent... Read more
15th July 2016
Following on from the launch of Rights Watch (UK)’s landmark report Preventing Education: Human Rights and UK Counter Terrorism Policy in Schools, RW(UK) and Chatham House held a invite only roundtable seminar that... Read more
5th July 2016
The governments Prevent strategy, a centrepiece of its national counter-terrorism policy, is stifling the freedoms of children in classrooms across the United Kingdom and is counter-productive, Rights Watch (UK) said... Read more
11th April 2016
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