Lexis®Library update: The Commission has confirmed that it is still concerned that the Bill risks placing the UK in breach of its international legal obligations to protect human rights, and exposing people to serious harm.
In particular the EHRC is concerned that the Bill undermines the core principle of the universality of human rights, removes protections for victims of trafficking and modern slavery, risks breaching the Refugee Convention by restricting the right to asylum and penalising refugees, risks breaching human rights protections under the European Convention on Human Rights and the principle of non-refoulement, includes broad provisions for detention, including of children and pregnant women, and insufficiently considers the impact for different groups such as children, women, disabled people, as well as torture survivors and people who have been trafficked.
The briefing is accessible here.
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