Midwifery and Human Rights: A Practitioner's Guide

This Guide has been developed to support midwives to deliver maternity services that respect human rights by providing accessible information about human rights and how they are relevant in a maternity context.

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Rights Removal Bill: How did we get here?

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The Rights Removal Bill & Human Rights Act Reform

What is the Government's Rights Removal Bill, what does it mean and how can you take action?
People will not be fooled by the Government's Anti-Rights Bill

Our response to the Government's anti-rights bill

Posters for health and care practitioners

New poster series on using human rights in practice
Video: Patient Voice and Human Rights

New video on using human rights to engage patient's in decisions about healthcare
New toolkit: Hospital Discharge and Human Rights

A new toolkit on human rights and hospital discharge
Posters: Your Human Rights

Posters about your human rights
Learning Disability, Autism and Human Rights

An accessible booklet aimed at people with learning disability and/or autism
Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Human Rights - practitioner toolkits

A suite of toolkits on human rights aimed at mental capacity and mental health practitioners
Mental Health and Mental Capacity - your human rights

Booklets on human rights aimed at people using mental capacity or mental health services, or those supporting them
End of Life Care and Human Rights: A Practitioner's Guide

This Guide has been developed to support those working in end of life care deliver care services that respect human rights.
Nursing and Human Rights: A Practitioner's Guide

This Guide has been developed support nurses to deliver health services that respect human rights.
Getting with the Act: Our Human Rights Act

Check out our eBook, a whistle stop tour of the Human Rights Act.

The Covid-19 Vaccine and Human Rights: A short guide

The Covid-19 Vaccine and Human Rights: A short guide
A. The Law: The Human Rights Act

Find out about our law here at home, the Human Rights Act, and how it protects us all.
Abolition of the Death Penalty

Abolition of the Death Penalty
Social Justice and Human Rights

This World Social Justice Day we look at how we can use Human Rights to achieve positive social change.
The Covid-19 Vaccine and Human Rights: A short guide for staff working in public bodies

Read our short guide for staff working in public bodies about the Covid-19 vaccine and human rights
What Rights Do I Have?

What rights do I have?
B. The European Convention on Human Rights

Find out about the European Convention on Human Rights and what it means for you.
The Human Rights Act

Find out more about the Human Rights Act, the main law that protects our human rights across the UK.
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The history of human rights

Did you know the ideas behind human rights in the UK are over 800 years old? Read more about the journey behind the Human Rights Act.