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Human rights
If you believe that your rights have been interfered with unreasonably, it gives you a way of doing something about it.
We are responsible for developing human rights policy. We can explain what the Act should do and how public authorities should behave under the Act. However, we can't investigate alleged human rights violations and we can't give legal advice. Everyone in the UK is protected by the Act.
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Related information
- Human rights guidance
- Responding to human rights judgments
- Optional Protocol to the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- UK 5th Periodic Report to the UN on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- UK leads the way in first review by UN Human Rights Council
- Government submits human rights report to United Nations
Related external links
- UK examination under ICCPR July 2008
- UN Human Rights Council: Review of the United Kingdom
- Directgov – human rights page
- Council of Europe Human Rights
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Commission for Equality and Human Rights
- Teachernet: Right Here, Right Now
- Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
- The text of the Human Rights Act
- European Court of Human Rights