#HumanRightsDay letter – safeguarding human rights today, during and after Brexit

On #HumanRightsDay Inclusion London stood with 140+ groups asking the Prime Minister to safeguard human rights today, during & after Brexit.

This is the letter we sent:

Dear Prime Minister,

Today, on Human Rights Day, we celebrate universal human rights. These freedoms, written down after World War II in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have been brought home through the UK’s Human Rights Act and European laws.

We face great constitutional change and uncertainty as your government seeks to navigate taking the UK out of the EU. Now is the time to focus on securing the everyday rights of people across the country. Rather than tampering with our hard-won fundamental freedoms, whether in the Human Rights Act or EU Charter, these legal standards must endure now and post-Brexit.

We ask you to avoid isolation and division, committing instead to stand firm on universal human rights standards as the foundation of a forward-looking UK.

Your sincerely,

British Institute for Human Rights

Inclusion London

143 other organisations

You can download the letter here:

Human Rights Day Letter 2017 Poster – PDF

Human Rights Day Letter 2017 – Word document

 

For more information go to: https://www.bihr.org.uk/together