LETTER: Fears for principle of human rights
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We are aware of many countries in the world where people are not allowed to express their views and are imprisoned or worse if they try to do so. In many cases they are from marginalised groups.
Hence the importance of efforts over the last 65 years to find ways of securing the universal human rights that were identified - principally by the British - in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, after the horrors of World War Two.
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Hide AdHowever, in Britain, those of us who have lived for many years under a democratic political system, where MPs are entrusted with the responsibility to represent all their constituents, have had less experience of such marginalisation.
Thank you, Nick, for giving us advance warning of what it is like to lose our voice – as we believe others will if the principle of universal human rights is abandoned as we fear.
JACKIE FRY
ALLISON MARSHALL
Joint Chair, Amnesty International UK, Hollands Field, Broadbridge Heath
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