UK introducing three laws that threaten human rights, says UN expert

Proposed changes to policing, surveillance and judicial review will jeopardise right to peaceful protest, says special rapporteur

Boris Johnson’s government is introducing three pieces of legislation that will make human rights violations more likely to occur and less likely to be sanctioned even as averting climate catastrophe depends on these rights, the UN special rapporteur for human rights and the environment has said.

“These three pieces of legislation are shrinking civic space at a time when the global environment crisis demands that people’s voices be heard,” said David Boyd.

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