Why we need a British Bill of Rights. (Kiron Reid)

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- Balkans & SE Europe writing.
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- 'Student fees and student protests'.
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- Attitudes to children and young people: examples of media reporting.
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- Books of Legal Interest: October 2011.
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- Human Rights, sentencing, and common sense.
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- Northern Renaissance in the early 21st Century.
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- On recession, tolerance, diversity, violence, good and evil.
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- Orange vests, human rights and a dose of common sense.
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- Review of ‘The Politics of Electoral Reform’ by Michael Meadowcroft, 3rd. ed.
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- The recession was obvious if you used common sense.
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- Top Ten Myspace Tips for Musicians
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- Web consumer issues 1209
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- Website front page old version.
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- What was going right in Liverpool. 2004 - handout.
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- What was going right in Liverpool. 2004.
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- What went wrong in Liverpool?
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- Why we need a British Bill of Rights.
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  My submission to the Commission on a Bill of Rights in favour of creating a UK Bill of Rights. (11/11/2011).
  
  Addendum.
  
  As soon as I had sent in the response I remembered two small examples which I should have included which demonstrate how the European Convention on Human Rights is both out of date and allows double standards. This is about the treatment of minorities.
  
  Greece officially denies that there are any minority populations in the country, which is implausible and must challenge EU commitments to equal treatment. It is assumed that EU countries act in accordance with the ECHR to which all are signatories (it predates the EU by many years). In France everyone is officially either French or 'non-French born'. So the country officially claims that there is no discrimination against ethnic minorities because everyone is treated equally, as all French or non-French born residents are treated equally. The denial is palbably untrue because discrimination then occurs either on perceived race or ethnicity, or geographically based (as it might more subtly here - perceived either for or against minority populations) or based on where parents were born. The enforcement of human rights and equality of treatment under EU Law must require that discrimination against minorities is monitored. If two major EU states can ignore such an obvious requirement the convention is clearly a weak protection as it can only be applied to assist in individual cases but where evidence of any pattern to show discrimination will be lacking.
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