{"id":191098,"date":"2015-10-13T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=191098"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:29:46","slug":"un-slams-uk-tory-planning-scrap-human-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/un-slams-uk-tory-planning-scrap-human-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"UN slams UK Tory for planning to scrap Human Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">UK ruling party\u2019s plan to scrap the Human Rights Act has sparked harsh criticism from the UN arguing that the act would be disastrous for victims of abuses and ruin the UK\u2019s commendable record. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0UN High Commissioner for Human Rights <\/span>Zeid Ra&#8217;ad\u00a0al-Hussein\u00a0<span style=\"color: black;\">said the threat by the UK\u2019s Conservative government to replace the act with a British Bill of Rights would leave many people unable to remedy the abuses they suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cIf Britain, a key member of the human rights council, a founding member of the UN and a privileged, permanent member of the Security Council, is considering a move that will potentially weaken a vital regional institution upholding fundamental human rights guarantees, this would be profoundly regrettable,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">He went on saying that the result of such move could prove \u201cdamaging for victims and human rights protection; and contrary to this country\u2019s commendable history of global and regional engagement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: black;\">The UN official also warned that such a move may also hand a free pass to states with worse records than the UK to do as they wish.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/13\/433214\/UK-plan-scrap-HRA-sparks-UN-criticism-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK ruling party\u2019s plan to scrap the Human Rights Act has sparked harsh criticism from the UN arguing that the act would be disastrous for victims of abuses and ruin the UK\u2019s commendable record. \u00a0UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra&#8217;ad\u00a0al-Hussein\u00a0said the threat by the UK\u2019s Conservative government to replace the act with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}