Last week, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published their Human Rights Inquiry examining people’s perceptions to human rights in the UK. Some findings are encouraging; some unsurprising while others give cause for concern. For instance, the survey finds that British people tend to value traditional civil and political rights like freedom of expression and inherent dignity of all people. Moreover, the majority of people questioned feel that human rights are meaningful for them in their everyday life. Of course, there can be several reasons for this varying from ignorance of what human rights actually are, what they entail for…
