Posts Tagged ‘Study Guide second edition Human Rights Act 1998’

I attended the Jersey Human Rights Group meeting last evening and found it most interesting.  They now have a website that holds some quite useful information.

http://jerseyhumanrights.com/

The above site includes a .pdf of the Jersey HUMAN RIGHTS (JERSEY) LAW 2000 and a
Study Guide – second edition – Human Rights Act 1998 which applies to the UK Act.

Human Rights seems to have had a bad press over recent years  in the UK because of one or two high profile court cases that dealt with the defence of one’s own home and family from an intruder – about the amount of force one is allowed to use to defend one’s home without falling foul of the law.  The problems arose when the defence was carried out as the burglar or intruder was running away and out on the public highway.  If the intruder remains in the home you can use reasonable force to deter them.  It is deemed incorrect to carry on and to chase and beat or threaten the intruder or burglar once they have left your property and is out on the public thoroughfare.

Human Rights is a far more wide-ranging subject than the defence of one’s own home. It is well worth looking at the articles and protocols at the following website and to find out which of them our Island Government subscribes to.  Does anyone know which treaties have been signed up to apart from the UN and EHRC?  It is also hard to find out which Articles and Protocols have been fully ratified or only partly ratified.  Currently this seems to be the most important issue because until we, as a group, now which have been signed up to we cannot advertise the facts fully.

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights/un-convention-on-disability-rights/articles-of-the-convention/

It is important to advertise the existence of the Human Rights Treaties as they were designed to make sure that people had certain basic right to life, free speech and freedoms and also to ensure that indignities  and atrocities of war are a thing of the past!

One of the best methods of getting the message is to hand out leaflets explaining the treaties and educating people so that they become aware.  I will be investigating how we can get the necessary information in the public domain particularly with regard to the disabled.