Law and Your Rights

Your Rights

Advicenow
An independent guide to the best available information on rights and legal issues. Produced by the Advice Services Alliance,
http://www.advicenow.org.uk/

British and Irish Ombudsmen Association (BIOA)
Directory of ombudsmen schemes and other complaint-handling bodies.
http://www.bioa.org.uk/

CAB - Advice Guide
Information on subjects such as benefits, civil rights, communications, consumer affairs, education, employment, family matters, health, housing, immigration, legal system, tax and travel.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk

Commission for Racial Equality
Rights, how to make a complaint, news and details of CRE publications.
http://www.cre.gov.uk

Community Legal Service Direct
Includes the full text of useful leaflets; a searchable database of web sites on topics such as community care, consumer issues, employment, family, housing, personal injury, wills and probate and much more; a directory of approved solicitors, advice agencies and information providers; and a legal aid calculator.
http://www.clsdirect.org.uk/

Convention on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF site giving a guide to the Convention, the full text and related information.
http://www.unicef.org/ crc/

Disability Rights Commission
Information on the rights of disabled people and downloadable versions of Disability Discrimination Act publications and factsheets on disability.
http://www.drc-gb.org/

Equal Opportunities Commission
New site with information and advice on equal opportunities and sex discrimination at work, in consumer issues, and in education.
http://www.eoc.org.uk

European Convention on Human Rights
The official name is the 'Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms'. Click the first item on the menu, then click 'Complete list of treaties'. Click the entry for no. 005, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 4/11/50, then click for the full text of the treaty. You will see the full text as amended by later Protocols. (To check whether there is an even later Protocol, not yet incorporated into the amended full text, return to the comple
http://conventions.coe.int/ treaty/ EN/ cadreprincipal.htm

European Social Charter
Full text of the Council of Europe's European Social Charter of 1961, the Protocols of 1988, 1991 and 1995, and the revised Social Charter of 1996 which will progressively replace the first Charter.
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/ cseweb/ GB/ GB1/ GB1.htm

Human Rights Act Unit
Information on the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The Human Rights Unit is part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
http://www.dca.gov.uk/ hract/

Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
The IPCC has overall responsibility for the system concerning complaints against the police. It has taken over from the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) which ceased to exist on 31 March 2004.
http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/

Law Society Guides
A series of 'Customer Guides' written in plain English and giving guidance on dealing with common legal issues. Also available is 'Client's Charter: Your solicitor's customer care standards'. All leaflets are available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh.
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/ choosingandusing/ commonlegalproblems.law

Rights of Women
Includes free advice line ane information sheets.
http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/

Rightsnet
A welfare rights web site for advice workers.
http://www.rightsnet.org.uk

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Full text of the 1948 document.
http://www.un.org/ rights/ 50/ decla.htm

Women's Aid
Includes law briefings and statistics on domestic violence in the 'Policy, research and campaigns' section.
http://www.womensaid.org.uk

Your Rights
Liberty's guide to human rights law, with information on the rights of protest, free expression, privacy, freedom of information, redress, suspects, defendants, prisoners, discrimination, immigrants, mental disorder, children and young people, workers, travellers, the bereaved, parents, property and victims and witnesses of crime
http://www.yourrights.org.uk/

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