UK: Falling Short on Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Border Force officers assist 20 Syrian migrants aboard HMC Hunter after they were stopped as they crossed The Channel in an inflatable dinghy headed in the direction of England. © 2021 Press Association via AP Images (London) – The United Kingdom government policies and practices at home often showed scant regard for human rights in 2021, and its commitment to human rights in its foreign policy was inconsistent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. “The UK government seems happy to jettison human rights at home when expedient, and its rights record…

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