#echr — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #echr, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/kind-of-humiliating-trans-community-responds-to-ehrcs-new-code-of-practice. The #EHRC keeps on proving that it has NOTHING to do with #equality, & EVERYTHING to do with #transphobia, @transworld, @transactualuk, @ilgaeurope, @PinkNews, @christineburns, @HarriettMB. Must we wait for the #ECHR to make a ruling about Victoria McCloud's case, when this #Labour #Government could amend the 2010 #EqualityAct?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/kind-of-humiliating-trans-community-responds-to-ehrcs-new-code-of-practice. The #EHRC keeps on proving that it has NOTHING to do with #equality, & EVERYTHING to do with #transphobia, @transworld, @transactualuk, @ilgaeurope, @PinkNews, @christineburns, @HarriettMB. Must we wait for the #ECHR to make a ruling about Victoria McCloud's case, when this #Labour #Government could amend the 2010 #EqualityAct?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/kind-of-humiliating-trans-community-responds-to-ehrcs-new-code-of-practice. The #EHRC keeps on proving that it has NOTHING to do with #equality, & EVERYTHING to do with #transphobia, @transworld, @transactualuk, @ilgaeurope, @PinkNews, @christineburns, @HarriettMB. Must we wait for the #ECHR to make a ruling about Victoria McCloud's case, when this #Labour #Government could amend the 2010 #EqualityAct?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/kind-of-humiliating-trans-community-responds-to-ehrcs-new-code-of-practice. The #EHRC keeps on proving that it has NOTHING to do with #equality, & EVERYTHING to do with #transphobia, @transworld, @transactualuk, @ilgaeurope, @PinkNews, @christineburns, @HarriettMB. Must we wait for the #ECHR to make a ruling about Victoria McCloud's case, when this #Labour #Government could amend the 2010 #EqualityAct?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/kind-of-humiliating-trans-community-responds-to-ehrcs-new-code-of-practice. The #EHRC keeps on proving that it has NOTHING to do with #equality, & EVERYTHING to do with #transphobia, @transworld, @transactualuk, @ilgaeurope, @PinkNews, @christineburns, @HarriettMB. Must we wait for the #ECHR to make a ruling about Victoria McCloud's case, when this #Labour #Government could amend the 2010 #EqualityAct?
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Europe Finally Moves to Facilitate Expulsions, despite the ECHR
All 46 Member States of the Council of Europe adopted the Chișinău Declaration on 15 May 2026. This…
#Europe #EU #ChisinauDeclaration #ECHR #EuropeanCourtofHumanRights #EuropeanUnion #expulsion #Immigration #memberstates #re-entryban #returnregulation #Security
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So #trans people in the #UK can't legally use most public toilets, & can't safely use hospitals.
Gender vigilantes will be empowered. Most of their victims will be non-conforming cis women. There will be violence.
Forget the small print in the new code of practice. #Apartheid is the new reality.
Yes, a case will be brought to the ECtHR. But that takes years, and a victory will be the casus belli for the UK to withdraw from the #ECHR.
Thanks, a bunch #LabourParty. You utter scum.
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@JugglingWithEggs * #EHRC ruling; the #ECHR is a different institution.
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Love it when the dogs come out to play! #Eu #Brexit #Brexitreality #Brexitshambles #Brexitisnotworking #Brexitisntworking #Brexitchaos #rejoinEU #ReasonsToRejoin #ECHR #refugees #erasmusplus #Wooferendum
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Love it when the dogs come out to play! #Eu #Brexit #Brexitreality #Brexitshambles #Brexitisnotworking #Brexitisntworking #Brexitchaos #rejoinEU #ReasonsToRejoin #ECHR #refugees #erasmusplus #Wooferendum
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Love it when the dogs come out to play! #Eu #Brexit #Brexitreality #Brexitshambles #Brexitisnotworking #Brexitisntworking #Brexitchaos #rejoinEU #ReasonsToRejoin #ECHR #refugees #erasmusplus #Wooferendum
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Love it when the dogs come out to play! #Eu #Brexit #Brexitreality #Brexitshambles #Brexitisnotworking #Brexitisntworking #Brexitchaos #rejoinEU #ReasonsToRejoin #ECHR #refugees #erasmusplus #Wooferendum
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Love it when the dogs come out to play! #Eu #Brexit #Brexitreality #Brexitshambles #Brexitisnotworking #Brexitisntworking #Brexitchaos #rejoinEU #ReasonsToRejoin #ECHR #refugees #erasmusplus #Wooferendum
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Steady erosion of rights continues
Changes to the European Convention latest moves
May 2026
The endless discussion about who shall be the leader of the Labour Party has meant the latest moves to whittle away rights has received little attention. The guiding influence is immigration, a factor which is a kind of idée fixe in our politics and seems to have the capacity to win or lose elections for individuals or parties. It is claimed that the UK’s membership of the ECHR is preventing us dealing with the problem and in particular the wish to deport people back to their country or origin.
It is not unique to the UK hence the declaration last week giving European governments more power to deport immigrants. The 46 members have decided that ‘states had an undeniable sovereign right to control their borders‘. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said ‘countries can [now] take action on illegal immigration‘. A questionable statement on many levels. The UK government wants to set up ‘hubs’ in foreign countries to process claims. It has been described as giving governments more ‘wiggle room’ to return migrants, even if there is a risk of mistreatment on their return. It is perhaps a measure of the moral collapse of our political parties that this agreement has generated almost no discussion and scarce mention in the media beyond the facts of the declaration.
Large sections of our community have no love for Europe and the Brexit beliefs still remain strong among many who also have believed at the time of the Referendum that the legal controls would be gone as well. The key proponent of Brexit and leader or the then UKIP party, Nigel Farage said last year ‘the Reform [his new party] will remove the UK from the European Convention and disapply International treaties‘. Reform did well in the recent local elections winning many seats and control of 34 councils. The loss on the other hand of some many Labour held seats has put the future of the prime minister under threat which is where we came in. .
The issues
There are many issues worth setting out:
– The concerns about immigration and the role of people not born in the UK is very one-sided. A number of politicians making most noise about immigrants are themselves – almost bizarrely – sons or daughters of … immigrants. Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Shabana Mahmood, Danny Kruger and many more have parents not born in the UK.
– There is little recognition, in the desire to deport those already here, of the essential role immigrants and foreign nationals play in our society and economy. The health service for example could not operate at its current level nor could care and nursing homes for the elderly. London underground and bus services would be down to skeleton levels of activity. Much of our food would disappear off the shelves.
– No recognition of the fact that the rise in those coming by boat has been caused by government’s closing almost all means to claim asylum legally.
There are also issues of morality and rights which seem to get ignored or set aside.
– As Amnesty International have put it, it risks creating a ‘hierarchy of people‘. Those who enjoy rights under article 3 not to be subject to torture and those who do not. We are seemingly happy to trade and sell arms to countries which practice torture but we don’t want those fleeing it to come here.
– It shows a politics which is driven by populism and biased coverage. In all the press coverage about immigrants which fill the pages of the mostly right-wing media, there is next to no coverage of the large numbers emigrating. It creates the illusion of the country becoming full-up like pouring more and more water into a jug. GB News is at last to be investigated by Ofcom for not countering in an interview with Donald Trump claims that London had no-go areas for police and parts of the UK were governed by Sharia Law. The interviewer did not challenge the president on this nonsense and retransmitted the interview the following day.
– It attacks the most vulnerable and those least able to defend themselves.
– It panders to the belief that immigration and immigrants are somehow the cause of our economic malaise. Never mind weak investment, low productivity, lack of export growth, high interest rates, poor training and other policy failures, just ship out the immigrants and somehow Britain will be great again.
– It is just another step in the drip, drip, drip of steadily removing rights. The limits on the right to protest and the spread. The various acts we have noted before e.g. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023, with more legislation in the pipe line are increasing been seen as attacks on free speech. There is an attempt to reduce the number of jury trials. Juries have irritated politicians by freeing some people despite directions to convict by some of our reactionary judges.
We need to be much more aware of this populist drive to diminish or weaken our rights. The claims that the Human Rights Act is a ‘criminal’s’ or ‘terrorist’s charter’ is based on the false notion that such people are using the act to escape justice. Autocratic regimes almost always base their rise to power by finding a minority to foist onto the blame for the ills of society and their own failure to govern effectively. It is not done dramatically but bit by bit. It is not even true to say ‘by stealth’ as it is done in plain sight.
Local MPs John Glen and Danny Kruger are revealed by They Work for You, to generally (Glen) and consistently (Kruger) to vote against proposed equality and human rights legislation. We cannot therefore rely upon either of these two gentlemen to support threats to our rights by these actions.
Sources: HRW, Civicus, Guardian, Irish Times, GB News, Standard.
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The UK joins a European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs.
A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.
Human rights organisations said they were concerned by the declaration.
#Asylum #Europe #HumanRights #CouncilOfEurope #Refugees #ECHR #Politics
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The UK joins a European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs.
A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.
Human rights organisations said they were concerned by the declaration.
#Asylum #Europe #HumanRights #CouncilOfEurope #Refugees #ECHR #Politics
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The UK joins a European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs.
A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.
Human rights organisations said they were concerned by the declaration.
#Asylum #Europe #HumanRights #CouncilOfEurope #Refugees #ECHR #Politics
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The UK joins a European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs.
A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.
Human rights organisations said they were concerned by the declaration.
#Asylum #Europe #HumanRights #CouncilOfEurope #Refugees #ECHR #Politics
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The UK joins a European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs.
A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.
Human rights organisations said they were concerned by the declaration.
#Asylum #Europe #HumanRights #CouncilOfEurope #Refugees #ECHR #Politics
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UK Backs Declaration To Ease Deportation of Illegal Migrants
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In Chisinau, I called on #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Ministers to recognise the fragility of our modern human rights system. We must express a firm determination to defend the European Convention on Human Rights and ensure its independence and standards are never compromised.
Read my full speech 👉 https://go.coe.int/HFNae
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Liberty (the human rights charity, not the fashion brand!) is fundraising to help defend the ECHR - if you have the money then chipping in just the cost of a cup of coffee / pint of beer / vice of your choice helps to try to protect all of us.
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Erosion of civil liberties latest (quote from a Liberty press release):
"The Chişinău political declaration on the ECHR is a hugely significant moment. We are deeply concerned that changing how the ECHR is used by UK courts will open the door to a gradual weakening of human rights protections."
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Erosion of civil liberties latest (quote from a Liberty press release):
"The Chişinău political declaration on the ECHR is a hugely significant moment. We are deeply concerned that changing how the ECHR is used by UK courts will open the door to a gradual weakening of human rights protections."
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Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
https://www.europesays.com/people/67936/ Hungary’s New Government Accused of ‘Betrayal’ over Migration Policy Shift #allocation #AnitaOrbán #application #AsylumSeekers #BorderProtection #CompulsorySolidarity #ECHR #ECJ #EUMigrationPact #EuropeanCommission #HumanRights #Hungary #HungaryNews #MigrationCrisis #MigrationPolicy #OpenBordersPolicy #overreach #PeterMagyar #pushback #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán
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#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.#Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.#Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.#Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.#Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#ContainsZeroPercentMastodonSocial #TheOppositeOfNews #AnotherPrideMonth #OrSomething
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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#ContainsZeroPercentMastodonSocial #TheOppositeOfNews #AnotherPrideMonth #OrSomething
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#OneThing we're #GoingToMiss about #Mastodon.Social...
#DrMichaelThingummybobs from the #ECHR...
#SeemsLike a #NiceChap; I'm #SureShaw he'll #FindAnotherInstance to #Broadcast from... #Maybe #SetUp his #OwnInstance... He's #CertainlySmartEnough
#DontPanic; he'll have #ManyMany #PublicallyFunded #People to #HelpHim...
#IT's #BluebellSeason...!
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