Ashley Fox says organisation will not hesitate to take public bodies to court if they breach Brexit withdrawal agreement.
‘This is only the tip of the iceberg’: EU nationals in UK already facing difficulty with digital-only status amid warnings of ‘crisis’ ahead
22/08/2020
EU citizens held up in airports and facing delays in moving house because they can’t provide physical proof of UK residency – despite government’s own assessment warning digital-only status would cause ‘a lot of issues’.
‘They’re like drug dealers!’: Tearful anti-Brexit caller doesn’t feel he belongs to a country anymore
23/05/2023
James O'Brien hears from a caller who says that the Brexit referendum "took his rights away".
The man known as “Stop Brexit Steve” could be silenced under the controversial new policing bill, Sadiq Khan warned today.
A significant number of EU citizens believe Brexit has made Britain "unrecognisable", a new study found.
‘Better off without us’: Britons in Spain bid sad adios to EU with poems, parties and pints
30/01/2020
Spain hosts the largest contingent of Britons on the continent, and their rights are protected by royal decree, but many fear what comes if the UK doesn’t uphold its side of the deal.
Women to be worst hit by Tory bonfire of EU employment rights after Brexit, report claims
17/01/2023
Research says that of the 8.6 million workers most affected by scrapping of EU protections, around six million will be women.
Without physical proof of our settled status, EU citizens like me fear for our futures post-Brexit
24/01/2020
The Home Office says the EU settlement scheme is working. Working for whom, exactly?
The government is proposing to remove EU-era regulatory protections that enable people to challenge the decisions algorithms make about them.
Why the Bill of Rights poses problems for human rights in Europe – and the UK’s international standing
11/08/2022
While the government has clarified that the UK will remain a party to the ECHR, as Mark Elliott observes, the Bill aims at ‘substantially decoupling’ the UK from it.
During the referendum, Leavers loudly defended the rights of EU citizens legally resident in the UK. Now many pro-Brexit MPs are not practising what they preach. They have so far refused to back legislation requiring the government to guarantee these citizens’ rights. We’ve gathered below some of the statements made before and after June 23 by Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and ...
What is the European Convention on Human Rights? Is UK still subject to ECHR post-Brexit? Tory row explained
10/08/2023
The European Court of Human Rights is still relevant to the UK, despite the country leaving the EU. / Certain Conservative MPs ... have called for the UK to leave the human rights convention, which would make Britain one of the few European nations, alongside Russia and Belarus, outside of ECHR.
'What really got my alarm bells ringing is this sentence under the privacy policy heading: "We may also share your information with other public and private sector organisations in the UK and overseas."'
Brexit has led to stronger powers for Westminster, a diminished role for international courts and the revocation of key legislation for the protection of human rights. Anna Sanders explains why all these factors are likely to have a profound and detrimental impact on gender equality in the UK.
Here’s everything you need to know about the legal framework for the PM’s proposed Brexit deal.
Liverpool Law School‘s Dr Stephanie Reynolds explains the legal minefield in store for UK and EU negotiators as they seek to resolve one of the major outstanding issues to be considered following the activation of Article 50.
Free movement, housing and social security rights at risk, says parliamentary report.
Irish citizens in Northern Ireland could become “second class citizens” post-Brexit, a Belfast-based human rights organisation has warned.
Poll finds 90% of EU citizens in UK fear discrimination without evidence of rights after Brexit.
Ulrike’s story: the human cost of Brexit
21/06/2021
The In Limbo Project gathers and shares the heart-rending stories of people caught up in the Brexit crossfire. Here is one of their most recent testimonies, reproduced by kind permission. It epitomises the senseless, casual cruelty that is just one of Brexit’s toxic legacies.
Thousands who fled their war-torn country stand to lose their right to work, rent a home and access NHS.
UK: No-Deal Brexit Risks Hunger for Poorest
16/10/2019
Government Failing to Take Adequate Steps to Ensure Right to Food
The British government has been ordered to pay the European commission’s legal costs after being successfully sued for granting City traders a tax break without EU permission.