Category Archives: Human Rights

Published on
7 February 2011

The European Court of Human Rights, HM Government, and Prisoner Voting

Posted in Civil Liberties, Europe, Human Rights, Legal Affairs, Liberty, Public Policy, World Affairs

Speculation in the press currently reports that the government are poised to allow MPs a free vote on the issue of whether prisoners should be allowed to vote in UK elections, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the UK’s blanket ban on prisoner voting breaches human rights. Setting aside the specific […]

Published on
3 February 2011

The Kermit Gosnell Case: Portrait of the Culture of Death

Posted in Abortion, Culture, Human Life, Human Rights, United States of America

Type the name of serial killer Harold Shipman into the search function on the BBC News website and you will find 587 news items. Crossing the Atlantic, and more recently, try a search for ‘Tucson shootings’ and you find 37, while a search for murdered abortionist George Tiller turns up 17 stories. Type in ‘Kermit […]

Published on
24 January 2011

Fifty Years Later: Considering the Legacy of JFK

Posted in Abortion, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Legal Affairs, Liberty, United States of America

It was fifty years ago this week that John F. Kennedy delivered his famous inauguration speech. Despite our current love affair with increasingly younger and more photogenic leaders in the West, Kennedy remains the youngest man ever to be elected President of the United States, and probably ranks among the most handsome. He is often […]

Published on
10 February 2010

Persecuting Home-Schoolers: A Message to the German Government

Posted in Civil Liberties, Conscience, Education, Europe, Human Rights, Liberty, Marriage & Family, United States of America, World Affairs

A most interesting immigration case in which a judge in Tennessee granted political asylum to a German piano teacher and his family may have dented German-American bilateral relations. The family in question home-schooled its children, which is not generally permitted in Germany. The parents’ determination had had repercussions there: massive fines imposed, police intrusion into […]

Published on
3 February 2010

David Cameron, Burglars, and Human Rights

Posted in British Politics, Human Rights, Legal Affairs, Public Policy

The stream of policy proposals from the Conservatives shows no sign of abating in the run-up to the election predicted for May. Most recently, their leader, David Cameron, stepped into the spotlight once again. Amid several cases of trials against victims who have sought to defend themselves against burglars and attackers, Mr. Cameron spoke out […]