Significant cases

This week’s human rights news includes updates on two of our human rights learning programmes and the publication of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

This week’s human rights news includes a workshop with managers with responsibility for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, job vacancies at one of BIHR’s London Community Programme partners, and the Care Quality Commission’s State of Care report.

This week’s human rights news is all about Advocacy Awareness Week! The week, coordinated by NDTi, brings together the advocacy sector around a theme, and this year’s theme is the impact of advocacy.

This week’s human rights news includes face-to-face meetings taking place in London and Belfast as part of BIHR’s London-specific and UK-wide Community Programmes, the launch of a guide BIHR created in partnership with the Scottish Recovery Consortium in Glasgow, and a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights finding that Cyprus had breached the rights of asylum seekers in small boats. 

This week’s human rights news includes information about an online event we delivered with the RITES Committee on Co-Production and a Human Rights-Based Approach, the publication of our human rights and SEND blog, and our submitted evidence on the UK’s implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, as well as our response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s consultation on its draft strategy for 2025-2028. With the European Convention hitting the headlines this week, we’re sharing some of our resources on understanding what it is and why it matters for people in the UK.

This week’s human rights news includes an Easy Read version of our brand new Human Rights Act Plan, progress on our UK Communities Programme, and a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights on an investigation into the conduct of a former UK Member of Parliament. 

This week’s human rights news includes our co-production and human rights event and a new case from the European Court of Human Rights on blood transfusions.

This week’s human rights news includes an update on our ongoing work with TEWV NHS Trust, BIHR’s response to a consultation about reporting the use of restraint in mental health units and exciting news about a new addition to the BIHR team.

This week’s human rights news includes an announcement that our CEO will be chairing a panel on activism at ACEVOFest 2025, the release of a human rights joint guide with the Scottish Recovery Consortium, and a new podcast episode featuring our head of policy and programmes discussing the human rights act.

This week’s human rights news includes the final blog in our series on Special Educations Needs and Disabilities, BIHR human rights training for advocates starting in October, and a legal case heading to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge a gap in the law for survivors of sexual abuse.

This week’s human rights news includes our bespoke human rights training offers for regulators and Ombudsman services and a modern slavery case being brought against the Home Office. 

This week’s human rights news includes our new explainer on the General Election manifestos and what they say about human rights as well as an update on our London Communities programme.

This week’s human rights news includes opportunities to work with us, an explainer on voter ID and the right to free elections, and a new legal challenge against the Home Office.

This week’s human rights news includes our latest human rights workshops with TEWV NHS Foundation Trust and a ruling from the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal on religious education and human rights.

This week’s human rights news includes our latest human rights workshops with community groups from across the UK and the latest on the new Rwanda Bill.

This week’s human rights news includes BIHR’s work with the Scottish Recovery Consortium, information about CQC’s launch of their new human rights approach to regulation and news that teenage Scouts in Scotland can now collect a human rights badge.  

This week’s human rights news includes BIHR giving evidence at the UN, partners selected for our human rights awareness raising workshops and the first ever case looking at the lawfulness of Home Office’s GPS tagging.

Read about our report on people with learning disabilities' experiences of DNARs, commissioned by England's Health Ombudsman as part of its review of end-of-life care.

This week’s human rights news includes our Easy Read guide to the European Convention on Human Rights and an update on the new Rwanda Bill.

This week’s human rights news includes our new SENDIASS blog series and a new case concerning asylum accommodation.

This week’s human rights news includes two opportunities for communities to get involved in and a new case on sentencing for young offenders.

This week’s human rights news includes opportunities to get involved with our programmes and a new case on freedom of thought.

This week’s human rights news includes our upcoming Human Rights Open Day and a new case on asylum accommodation.

This week’s human rights news includes our work with adult social care and healthcare teams and a new case on the right to clean air.

This week’s human rights news includes a Human Rights Act event and an update on a trade union case.

This week’s human rights news includes our Human Rights Open Day in Shoreditch and an update on the Rwanda case. 

This week’s human rights news includes our Advocacy Awareness Week celebrations and an update on the King’s Speech.

This week’s human rights news includes registration for free London human rights events, the next one is 15 November in Shoreditch.

This week’s human rights news includes our ongoing work with Lived Experience Experts and an update on a difficult right to life case.

This week’s human rights news includes our response to the consultation on a Human Rights Bill for Scotland and 4in10’s London Challenge Poverty Week.

This week’s human rights news includes our Rights in Recovery Leadership programme and updates on a Covid vaccine case.

This week’s human rights news includes our CEO’s speech at the Restraint Reduction Network conference and human rights storytelling in Scotland.

This week’s human rights news includes our CEO speaking at an event in Birmingham and an update on a key right-to-protest case.

This week’s human rights news includes a climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights and an NHS worker who used human rights to support a young person in a mental health tribunal.

This week’s human rights news includes a new opportunity to work with BIHR and a legal challenge against the Home Office being brought by a family with two disabled children.

This week’s human rights news includes a new case going to the European Court of Human Rights and a chance to share your experiences of the pandemic.

This week’s human rights news includes the Refugee Ban Bill passing into law.

This week’s updates include the human rights concerns with the Victims and Prisoners Bill and our in-person human rights workshop.

This week’s human rights news includes our work with NHS staff and the Law Society’s statement on the Legacy Bill breaching human rights.

This week’s human rights news includes our House of Lords event celebrating one year of our RITES Committee and an update on the Rwanda case.

This week’s human rights news includes our evidence submissions on Covid and the Refugee Ban Bill and a challenge to an autism assessment policy.

This week’s news includes our work with Council of Europe and the new Victims and Prisoners Bill. 

This week’s news includes our CEO’s visit to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and our work with Poverty Action Network.

This week’s news includes updates from our community workshops and a High Court finding that the Justice Secretary breached the right to liberty.

This week’s human rights news includes our work with community partners and a Parliamentary report on the Anti-Strike Bill.

This week’s news includes an explanation of the human rights issues in Shamima Begum’s citizenship case and our write-up of the recent Justice Questions about the European Convention on Human Rights.

This week’s news includes parents who won their right to family life case and clips from our Human Rights in CAMHS event.

This week’s news includes our launch event for resources for young people accessing mental health services and reports that Conservative MPs want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

This week’s news includes our training with carers and a European Court on Human Rights judgment on applying for a “neutral” birth certificate.

This week's news includes a look back at our work throughout 2022 and a brief explanation of the human rights issues in the Rwanda case.