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#freedoms — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freedoms, aggregated by home.social.

  1. independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli. This is the most unutterable nonsense, @pennine, @ChrisMayLA6. It seems that no-one in the #LabourParty has learned anything from the farcical #experience of the #Tory years, & are apparently convinced that #Brussels will accept #British #membership of the #SingleMarket on the basis of free movement of goods, services & capital, but not labour. The #Tories were told it was all 4 #freedoms or none of them - why should #Burnham get a different answer?

  2. "Concerned at the UK Government’s intentions to review the #HumanRights framework and #JudicialReview we have come together to state:

    While every system could be improved, and protecting #rights and #freedoms for all is a balancing act, our #HumanRightsAct is a proportionate and well-drafted protection for the fundamental #liberties and #responsibilities of everyone in this country.

    The Act guarantees the rights to #FreeSpeech and expression, to life, to #liberty, to security, to privacy, to assembly, and to #FreedomOfReligion or belief. It prohibits torture and guarantees fair trials and the #RuleOfLaw.

    Judicial review is an indispensable mechanism for individuals to assert those rights and freedoms against the power of the state." humanrightsact.org.uk/

  3. Are we Americans proud of ourselves? I don’t think so. “The United States was added Sunday to the #CIVICUS Monitor #Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of #freedoms and #threats to #civil #liberties worldwide. time.com/7266334/us-human-righ