Consortium Joins 265 Organisations Urging Lords to Reject Rwanda Bill
Consortium Joins 265 Organisations Urging Lords to Reject Rwanda Bill
As the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill reaches its Second Reading in the House of Lords, 265 civil society organisations from across the UK have written to Peers urging them to reject the Bill.
We have joined this broad coalition to defend the universality of human rights. The Safety of Rwanda Bill undermines universality by allowing the Government to pick and choose when fundamental rights apply, and to whom. It creates a two-tier system, by which asylum seekers will not have the full protection of the Human Rights Act to enforce their human rights.
Our statement also outlines how the Bill attacks the role of the judiciary, undermines the rule of law, reneges on the UK's commitments to international human rights law, and breaches the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
The Government must not be allowed to choose how fundamental human rights are applied, or to undermine efforts to protect human rights for everyone. Either we all have human rights, or none of us do.
Click here to read the statement in full