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Institute of Race Relations: This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber

01 May 2013

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"With nativism, racism and fascism on the rise throughout Europe, informing government policies towards migrants and other unpopular minorities as well as popular right-wing, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-Roma movements, the European system of human rights is vital. But, since taking office in September 2012, Conservative justice minister Chris Grayling has made no secret of his desire to get rid of the Human Rights Act and to ‘dramatically curtail’ the role of the European Court of Human Rights Act in the UK."

See: This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber

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