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Last updated: 19 Jun 2019
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to all of us, from birth until death. We explore where they come from and how they can help you.
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Last updated: 15 Nov 2018
The Human Rights Act allows you to defend your rights in UK courts and ensures that public organisations respect and protect your human rights.
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Last updated: 06 Aug 2018
We advise how people what they need to do if their human rights have been breached and they want to take action.
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News
Published: 01 Mar 2019
A legal inquiry into whether people with mental health conditions, cognitive impairments and conditions including autism are experiencing discrimination in the criminal justice system is launched today.
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First Published: 13 Mar 2019
This report presents the lived experience of people who were affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower.
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First Published: 20 Mar 2019
Our human rights framework on restraint covers principles for the lawful use of physical, chemical, mechanical and coercive restrictive interventions.
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First Published: 07 May 2019
We outline our recommendations to the UK government regarding UK compliance with the Convention Against Torture (CAT).
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First Published: 20 Sep 2019
Our concerns about the UK government’s approach to the Universal Periodic Review (a process to review human rights).
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News
Published: 09 Oct 2019
A tool to make the UK’s human rights records transparent, and the Government accountable, launches today.
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Blog
Published: 05 Nov 2019
Rachel Thomas, Head of Policy and Public Affairs for the Children's Commissioner for Wales, talks about how she will us the new human rights tracker tool.
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First Published: 12 Mar 2020
We outline our recommendations to the UK Government on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Ritghts (ICCPR).
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Blog
Published: 12 Mar 2020
Find out more about how the UK is performing about the UN's human rights framework, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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News
Published: 12 Mar 2020
Find out why we have called for the suspension of the use of automated facial recognition (AFR) and predictive algorithms in policing in England and Wales, until their impact has been independently scrutinised and laws are improved.
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Last updated: 03 May 2016
The United Nations first accredited the Commission as an ‘A’ status National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) in 2009. We became Great Britain’s first accredited NHRI and the UK’s second - joining the Northern Ireland Human Rights Institution which was awarded ‘A’ status in 2006. The UN r...
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Last updated: 16 May 2016
This is where you can read about the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions' (ENNHRI) Legal Working Group.
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Last updated: 04 May 2016
The Commission has a range of human rights legal powers available to it, including judicial review, interventions and inquiries.
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Last updated: 14 Oct 2019
One of the Commission’s core tasks as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) is to monitor the UK’s compliance with the seven United Nations (UN) human rights treaties it has signed and ratified.
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FAQ
Last updated: 12 Mar 2020
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is an international human rights treaty adopted by the UN in 1966. It is one of the two treaties that give legal force to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Human Rights
Last updated: 30 Oct 2019
This treaty covers the rights of all people to enjoy civil, political, economic and social rights, without discrimination on grounds of race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin.
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Last updated: 21 Jan 2020
This treaty sets out what human rights mean in the context of disability. It represents a major step towards realising the right of disabled people to be treated as full and equal citizens.
