These rights have been central to many key justice fights in the past 20 years, and we can’t allow politicians to take them away
- Kate Allen is the director of Amnesty International UK
The Human Rights Act is like serious injury insurance, or perhaps an action plan for a global pandemic: you hope you never need it.
The problem is that you might do, and it seems this horrific past year has reminded people in the UK that it’s wise to foresee potential trouble ahead. In new polling we at Amnesty commissioned this week, more than two-thirds (68%) of people thought it was important to have a safety net to hold the government to account when things go wrong, while more than half (53%) believed the coronavirus pandemic had illustrated the importance of human rights protections.
