A UK-wide charity making positive change through human rights
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Work with us
We offer one-off workshops, lunch-and-learn series, event talks and long-term programmes designed to help you embed human rights in all your work.
Our workshops for individuals and grassroots community groups are designed to help you use the language of human rights law in your advocacy and bring about positive change in your life and the lives of the people you support.
Anyone carrying out a public function (like healthcare, social care and regulation) has legal duties under the Human Rights Act. Our programmes support you to understand and implement these duties.
We offer spaces for individuals to join an open course on human rights tailored to specific areas and issues. Build your human rights knowledge and confidence and create networks with people doing the same.
Our impact
Find out about the difference we're making through our human rights programmes
What we do
At BIHR, we're all about making human rights real for people across the UK. Working with individuals, community groups, public bodies and policy-makers, we shine a light on the way the Human Rights Act can be put into practice and make a positive change in all our lives.
In 2024 alone:
800+
We trained 800+ staff across care, housing and health on their Human Rights Act legal duties, from frontline workers through to senior leads, Boards and commissioners.
24
We supported 24 community and grassroots group across the UK to understand and use human rights in tackling injustice; from racial justice to disability discrimination, from children & young people's groups to migration organisations. Human rights are universal and so is BIHR's work.
250+
We co-led knowledge-building sessions with over 250 charities and civil society organisations to support them to use human rights law in their work.
