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Lunchtime Lectures
Threats to Civil Liberties
Chris Huhne MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department gave the Liberal Democrats' perspective on a Bill of Rights and Repsonsibilities and discussed their own Freedom Bill, on 5 May 2009.
Read BIHR's response to the lecture here.
Perspectives on a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
Justice Minister Michael Wills MP gave his first public speech on Tuesday 21 April, 1-2pm, for the British Institute of Human Rights, since the publication of the Government’s Green Paper on Rights and Responsibilities.
Read BIHR's response to Michael Wills' lecture here.
Rights without Responsibilities - A Decade of the Human Rights Act
This lecture was given by Nick Herbert MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice on 24 November 2008, in association with the British Library.
The transcript of the Q&A which followed the speech will be available shortly. Please note that the purpose of the lunchtime lectures is to open up debate about human rights. The views expressed by the speakers are not necessarily shared by the British Institute of Human Rights.
Freedom in Brown's Britain: A Historical Perspective
On 4 November 2008, Professor Conor Gearty, Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE, delivered a lunchtime lecture exploring themes of political freedom in the contemporary British context.
The lecture was presented in association with the British Library.
Please download the transcipt of the lecture and the following Q&A.
Rights are not a pair of tights to wear
On 3 July 2007, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Director of Kids' Company, spoke about her experience of working with some exceptional children, sadly often described as 'demonic'.
Human Rights: Common Values, Common Sense
Taken from the BIHR Lunchtime Lecture delivered by Baroness Cathy Ashton, Human Rights Minister, on 17 April 2007.
Human rights and common sense go together. If you consider what you should be doing from a commonsense perspective, you are more than likely to be thinking from a human rights perspective.
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