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Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for THREE days - Daily Mail 13th September 2009
A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.
Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San'a.
Transsexual killer wins battle to serve life sentence in a women's jail - The Times 5th September 2009
A transsexual killer who was born a man has won a legal battle to be transferred to a women’s prison.
The prisoner, who was also convicted of attempted rape, will be moved to a women’s jail within weeks after a High Court ruled that the refusal by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to transfer her violated her basic human rights and increased her long-term risk to society.
Transexual prisoner wins High Court battle to be moved to women's jail - Daily Mail 5th September 2009
A transsexual killer jailed for trying to rape a woman is to be moved to a women's prison - to protect his human rights.
He will now be housed with hundreds of female inmates after he claimed that serving his sentence in a men's jail was violating his right to live as a woman.
The High Court ruling comes despite a Parole Board warning that he still poses a risk of sex offending.
Free health care for failed asylum seekers - Daily Telegraph 21st July 2009
Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers will be able to obtain free health care following a Government rethink, it has been announced.
Failed asylum seekers to get free care from cash strapped NHS to protect their human rights - Daily Mail 21st July 2009
NHS treatment will be available for tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers to ensure their human rights are honoured, it was announced yesterday.
At present, they are denied free treatment if an asylum bid has been turned down but they have not left the country.
Row on asylum children detention - BBC Health News 8th March 2009
The UK government's treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is 'abusive' and 'dehumanising', it has been claimed.
The chief executive of the Welsh Refugee Council said the government was in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Foster carers not told if babies are HIV positive 'to protect the child's human rights' - Daily Mail 22nd February 2009
Foster carers have been put at risk by not being told that the babies they are looking after could be HIV positive.
Social workers decided that the human rights of a mother wanting to keep her child's status confidential were more important than protecting foster parents, it is claimed.
Care home residents ordered to have mental health check - The Sunday Telegraph 1st February 2009
Tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people must undergo detailed assessments of their mental health within weeks to check if they are being kept in hospital or nursing homes unlawfully, under new human rights laws.
Legal threat to councils over rape victims - The Guardian 30th January 2009
More than 100 councils will today be threatened with legal action over their failure to provide rape crisis centres and domestic violence support services, with a strongly worded warning issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Law lords support banned nurses in rights ruling - The Guardian 22nd January 2009
Safeguards to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse are an unlawful infringement of the human rights of staff working in the NHS and social care, five law lords ruled yesterday in a test case brought by the Royal College of Nursing.
The House of Lords outlawed a procedure that allows ministers to put staff on a provisional employment blacklist without investigating the strength of allegations made against them or listening to their side of the case.
Human Rights Act: The law that has devalued your human rights - The Sunday Telegraph 9th November 2008
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Human Rights Act - legislation that was meant to embody the values that our servicemen, who we honour today, have fought and died to defend. Yet Labour's flagship law has been a poor advertisement for rights.
UN to criticise Labour's record on child rights - The Telegraph 3rd October 2008
The Committee on the Rights of the Child will deliver its verdict on the Government's progress in improving the quality of life of British children over the past five years.
The report is predicted to say that more could have been done, and warn that too many young people are still living below the breadline and being held in custody.
Letter: A human right to palliative care - The Guardian 16th September 2008
Guy Brown's article on our ageing society and its implications (The long game, September 10) raises a number of important issues. As well as considering how we manage these, however, we must also face the fact that the final test of our health and social care systems must be how we are cared for as we approach the end of life. According to the Department of Health's first End of Life Care Strategy (July 2008): "How we care for the dying is an indicator of how we care for all sick and vulnerable people. It is a measure of society as a whole." Yet last year the Healthcare Commission reported that a majority (54%) of the complaints regarding English acute hospitals concerned end-of-life care.
Hospitals and care homes ignoring older people's human rights - The Guardian 28th August 2008
Hospitals and care homes are ignoring older people's human rights, despite a report a year ago calling for a "culture change" in the NHS, Age Concern said today.
The charity says not enough progress has been made since parliament's joint committee on human rights published its report in August last year.
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