Defend our Human Rights – Tell Your MP to Back the ECHR

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Our rights are under attack. Politicians want to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights – the safety net that protects every one of us. Tell your MP to defend the ECHR and keep our rights safe.

For 75 years, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has protected people in the UK, from families seeking justice after Hillsborough, to domestic violence survivors, echr tysoldiers and workers holding the government to account.

But right now, these vital protections are under threat. Some politicians want to pull the UK out of the ECHR altogether, or water it down so much that it no longer protects those who need it most.

Leaving the ECHR would be unprecedented. It would put the UK alongside Russia and Belarus, countries expelled or isolated for their human rights abuses. It would also jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement, the cornerstone of peace in Northern Ireland.

Human rights are universal - they belong to all of us, not just those who are popular with politicians or the media. Protecting the rights of migrants, survivors of abuse, and those facing injustice protects the rights of everyone.

We’ve defended the ECHR before - and we can do it again. But MPs must hear from their constituents that these protections are not up for grabs.

Write to your MP today. Tell them to stand up for the UK’s membership of the ECHR and protect our rights for generations to come.

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👇 Write to your MP today. Tell them to stand up for the UK’s membership of the ECHR and protect our rights for generations to come.

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As the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) marks its 75th anniversary, I am writing as your constituent to outline my views and to ask that you raise these with the Secretary of State for Justice and consider them when discussing the issue in Parliament.

Over recent months, there has been an increased focus on the UK’s continued membership ofthe ECHR. I am incredibly concerned about the calls to leave entirely, along with the impacts that certain proposals to reform it may have on the principle that human rights are universal.

There are many potential harms that arise from the UK turning its back on the ECHR. Below are what I consider to be some of the most alarming:

1. The ECHR is the cornerstone of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the foundation on which Northern Ireland peace is built. Leaving the ECHR would be a serious breach of the Agreement and undermine the delicate peace settlement which flowed from it.
 
2. Leaving the ECHR would be unprecedented and could fracture an already vulnerable region further. If the UK were to leave, we would be out in the cold with Belarus and Russia – the latter of which was expelled after 26 years, following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The UK should be proud of the role it played in drafting the Convention and at a time when the world stage feels so unpredictable, we should be championing it.
 
3. The ECHR benefits us all – leaving it, or preventing certain groups accessing its protection, ignores the very principle that rights are for everyone, whether they are popular with politicians and the media or not. They are there to protect people who are all too easily made political scapegoats or singled out for vilification. Migrants and asylum seekers have always been targeted in this way and must continue to be protected by the Convention and the UK’s human rights framework. It is only by guaranteeing basic human rights for everyone that we can ensure the human rights of anyone.

I look forward to hearing your views and reading the response from the minister.

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👇 Write to your MP today. Tell them to stand up for the UK’s membership of the ECHR and protect our rights for generations to come.

Defend our Human Rights – Tell Your MP to Back the ECHR

Our rights are under attack. Politicians want to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights – the safety net that protects every one of us. Tell your MP to defend the ECHR and keep our rights safe.

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