Human rights

• Councils criticised for banning anti-abortion protests

  Councils wanting to restrict protests outside abortion clinics have been challenged by a group of campaigners, including human rights activist Peter Tatchell.

  

• Councils threaten to ‘divide' migrant families, report says

  Local authorities often threaten to take children into care if their parents do not have the proper documentation to remain in the country, human rights groups warn.

  

• Human rights watchdog launches Grenfell fire inquiry

  The harm suffered by those who survived or witnessed the Grenfell Tower fire may constitute ‘inhumane and degrading treatment’, according to human rights watchdogs.

  

• Councils complicit in ‘human rights violations’, disability organisations say

  Deaf and disability organisations have accused the Government and local authorities of human rights violations due to policies which prevent disabled people living independent lives.