Tag Archives: Human Rights

The Lords and human rights

Lord Norton 19/04/2012 – 5:54 pm

I was taking part yesterday in a conference, held in Portcullis House, on Parliaments and human rights.  It had an international focus but also addressed the role of the UK Parliament.  I spoke on what I saw as the strengths and weaknesses of our current arrangements and proferred some modest thoughts as to how we could address the latter.  You can see a summary of what I said here.   Howeve […]

Written at 5:54 pm on 19/04/2012, by Lord Norton

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School of Law – Abu Dhabi and Palestine

Lord Soley 13/06/2011 – 8:16 pm

I am writing this from Abu Dhabi. I came here last Saturday and am returning tomorrow night. My purpose was to establish a post graduate school of law with outreach to Palestine in order to advance the rule of law in the region. Zayed University http://www.zu.ac.ae/main/en/ is going to host it as a Masters degree and they will initially take some 20 or 25 students from Palestine. Later I hope […]

Written at 8:16 pm on 13/06/2011, by Lord Soley

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Human Rightsology

Baroness Deech 05/02/2010 – 1:29 am

Following on Lord Hylton's comments, I have noticed that the provisions in the Equality Bill are making many reasonable and decent people very unhappy. They feel that their faith, and provision of services by its adherents to the members of their community and to the wider world are under threat. Why is this? Listening to the debate on the Equality Bill, and reading the letters from members of […]

Written at 1:29 am on 05/02/2010, by Baroness Deech


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