Feature

Which Human Right Would You Give Away?

By Adam Wagner, Founder and Chair 17 May 2015
Family, Immigration, Institutions, Young People

“Which of these rights, I ask, would we wish to discard? Are any of them trivial, superfluous, unnecessary? Are any them un-British?”

That was Lord Bingham, the late former chief of the Law Lords (so the highest judge in the land) in a speech he gave in 2009. It’s an important question. So we made it easy for you to answer it, by translating the main European Convention Rights into plain English in a new page.

So go on, you can find it here. Oh, and because it’s EachOther, you get some lovely illustrations too.

We’re into plain-English on EachOther, so after the text of the articles of the Convention, each of which protects a basic human right, you will see a simple explanation of what the right means.

So go there now. Find out what human rights you have. Click here. Or here, or here, or here. It’s all the same link.

Oh, and if you want to find out how this stuff works in practice, check this out. It’s pretty whizzy.

About The Author

Adam Wagner Founder and Chair

Adam is the founder and Chair of EachOther. In his day job, he is a barrister specialising in human rights law and is well known for his human rights communications work on social and mainstream media. In 2010, he set up the hugely successful UK Human Rights Blog.

Adam is the founder and Chair of EachOther. In his day job, he is a barrister specialising in human rights law and is well known for his human rights communications work on social and mainstream media. In 2010, he set up the hugely successful UK Human Rights Blog.