Enforcing Human Rights examined

• Watch Parliament TV: Human Rights: attitudes to enforcement
• Inquiry: Human Rights: attitudes to enforcement
• Joint Committee on Human Rights

Witnesses

Wednesday 9 May, Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster.

At 3.15pm

• Professor David Mead, University of East Anglia Law School
• Martha Spurrier, Director, Liberty
• Dr Alice Donald, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University
• Adam Wagner, Founder and Strategic Director, RightsInfo.

Focus of the session

• Whether a ‘human rights culture' exists in the UK
• Public attitudes to human rights
• Media reporting of human rights across the UK
• Inaccurate reporting and corrections
• Media criticism of the judiciary
• Positive human rights narratives in media discourse

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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