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Major Report on ‘Developing a Bill of Rights’ (March 2010)

The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has just released a major research report on ‘Developing a Bill of Rights for the UK’.

The report aims to ‘identify and explore best practice processes for developing a new Bill of Rights for the UK’. The report analyses evidence from related domestic and international experiences (including the ACT, Victoria and Australia) and identifies key principles to underpin the development of a Bill of Rights, regardless of which political party is in power.

The Human Rights Law Resource Centre was interviewed for the research and is extensively and positively cited through the report.

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Human Rights News Stories for the week ending 12 March 2010