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MagnacartaPlus - Site to promote civil liberties and provide information in pursuit of this objective. A watch on any attempts by governments to reduce or interfere with civil liberties and freedoms.
Amos Trust - Human rights organisation with the aim of making people aware of the root causes of injustice.
Your Rights - Liberty's online guide to human rights law in England and Wales
The Human Rights Unit of the Northern Ireland Civil Service - A unit within the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, aiming to promote a culture of protection of human rights throughout the Northern Ireland Departments. News, database of legal data, information on training provided and ideas of best practices.
Complete List of the Treaties of the Council of Europe, Including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and Protocols - The full list of the treaties which create the structure of the European Union, including the Convention on Human Rights and all the protocols added to it.
Human Rights Act 1998 - Full text of the Act which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English Law subject to the final discretion of Parliament: the act was designed to retain sovereignty.
An overview of Civil Liberties legislation - A perspective on UK civil liberties, expressed as a time line with links to source documents.
Amnesty International - Includes organization profile and history, details of current campaigns, list of regional offices, online library, education section and volunteer information.
Justice - UK based human rights campaigns organisation - includes links to important Human Rights documents.
BBC World Service: I have a right to... - Human rights case studies from around the world: freedom and equality; live and be safe; nationality, representation and education; work and have a family; justice before the law; think, believe and express myself.
Governing after the Human Rights Act - Contact information for an interdisciplinary conference on the effect of the Human Rights Act on the British State will be held Friday 17th January 2003, London Metropolitan University.
Human Rights Watch for Northern Ireland - Aims to promote and agree a democratic Charter for all the people of Northern Ireland, ensuring whatever their class, creed or political opinion, they enjoy equal human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Human Rights Unit - Responsibilities are the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, and various other Human Rights Treaties. Includes law and judgments, policy statements, news, guidance and Human Rights Task Force details. From the Lord Chancellor's Department.
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) - For free speech and privacy, against child pornography.
STAND - Lobby your MP and Jack Straw against the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (RIP) which this site argues is a threat to computer privacy.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Freedom of Information - Ongoing coverage of news and analysis about freedom of information acts in both the UK and the US, plus links to speeches, organizations, public polls, official government reports and legislation.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Human Rights in the UK - Ongoing coverage includes information about the Human Rights Act plus archives of news, comment and analysis about relevant issues and topics.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Free Speech on the Net - Ongoing coverage about internet freedom in the UK and around the world. News, comment and analysis with links to relevant organisations and government sites.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Privacy on the Internet - Ongoing news, comment and analysis focusing on internet issues worldwide and in Britain in particular, including the RIP Act. Includes links to pressure groups, research and government sites.
Observer Special Reports: Liberty Watch - The best of The Observer's commentary and analysis on civil liberties issues in the wake of September 11th.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Human Rights and Liberties Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Human Rights and Liberties Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Human Rights and Liberties When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Human Rights and Liberties "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Human Rights and Liberties Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Human Rights and Liberties The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Human Rights and Liberties There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Human Rights and Liberties People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Human Rights and Liberties Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Human Rights and Liberties Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Human Rights and Liberties Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights and Liberties Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Human Rights and Liberties Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Human Rights and Liberties "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Human Rights and Liberties Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Human Rights and Liberties Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Human Rights and Liberties My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human Rights and Liberties And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Human Rights and Liberties In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Human Rights and Liberties "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Human Rights and Liberties My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Human Rights and Liberties
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