Demonstrating the value of human rights - our policy reports, briefings and publications

Our recent work includes:

• The Human Rights Act: Changing Lives 2nd Edition (November 2008)

• BIHR Briefing: Dignity in Care Briefing (July 2008)

• BIHR, Liberty, JUSTICE, Help the Aged and Age Concern England Parliamentary Briefing on human rights for older and disabled people in care homes (June 2008)

• BIHR Briefing: The Criminal Justice & Immigration Bill - introducing legal protections to protect lesbian and gay people from incitement to hatred (March 2008)

• BIHR and Oxfam Briefing: Human Rights and Poverty - a pre-briefing for the BIHR Roundtable held in partnership with Oxfam, Amnesty UK and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (December 2007)

• Human Rights, a Tool for Change: A report on the unmet potential of human rights to be used as a tool for positive social change in the UK (October 2007)

• BIHR Briefing: The new Equality and Human Rights Commission: What will it do for our human rights?  (September 2007)

• BIHR Briefing: Older people and human rights (July 2006). See also our Your Human Rights: A Guide for Older People.

• BIHR Briefing: Defending human rights (May 2006)

• BIHR Briefing: Equality Bill 2005 Second Reading Debates House of Lords (November 2005)

• Something for Everyone: the impact of the Human Rights Act on disadvantaged groups (December 2002). Read the Executive Summary here. Read the Final Report here.