The UK’s assault on human rights comes against an international backdrop which has seen a “human rights catastrophe” in Ukraine - with Russian forces committing mass war crimes, extrajudicial ...

Ultimately the management of water resources lies with the governments, who retain a sovereign duty to ensure the human right to safe drinking water. The water crisis is a climate justice crisis.

Protest is not only a human right. It is a powerful way to change the world. In the UK, the right to protest is under threat. When it comes to protest rights in the UK, police forces decide your ...

Without water, humans simply cannot survive, much less flourish. Yet the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) nowhere included water in its enumeration of basic rights. Subsequent ...

The Human Rights Act (1998) introduced the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, of which the UK was one of the primary authors. What this means in practice is that people who wish to ...

The UN General Assembly declared clean drinking water a human right in 2010, but the number without it is still astronomically high. Half of the world doesn’t have safe drinking water.

On July 28, member states of the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a historic resolution that recognizes that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.