Law and Your Rights

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Advicenow
Advicenow is an independent, not-for-profit website providing accurate, helpful information on rights and legal issues for people who need it. They provide an information service which draws together the best information available, produce their own guides to fill gaps in information, and work to improve the standard of information on law-related issues available to the public.
http://www.advicenow.org.uk/

British and Irish Ombudsmen Association (BIOA)
Directory of ombudsmen schemes and other complaint-handling bodies.
http://www.ombudsmanassociation.org/

CAB - Advice Guide
Information from Citizen's Advice on subjects including benefits, housing and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/ england.htm

Convention on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF site giving a guide to the Convention, the full text and related information.
http://www.unicef.org/ crc/

Equality and Human Rights Commission
The Equality and Human Rights Commission have a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the nine 'protected' grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment. The site provides advice and guidance on rights, responsibilities and good practice, based on equality law and human rights.
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/

European Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights is the first Council of Europe�s convention and the cornerstone of all its activities. It was adopted in 1950 and entered into force in 1953. Its ratification is a prerequisite for joining the Organisation. The European Court of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the Convention in the 47 Council of Europe member states. Individuals can bring complaints of human rights violations to the Strasbourg Court once all possibilities of appeal have been exhausted in the member state concerned.
http://human-rights-convention.org/

European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights is an international court set up in 1959. It rules on individual or State applications alleging violations of the civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.
http://www.echr.coe.int/ Pages/ home.aspx?p=home&c=

Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) oversees the police complaints system in England and Wales and sets the standards by which the police should handle complaints.
http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/

Law Society Guides
A series of 'Customer Guides' written in plain English and giving guidance on dealing with common legal issues.
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/ for-the-public/ common-legal-issues/

Rights of Women
Rights of Women is a women�s voluntary organisation committed to informing, educating and empowering women concerning their legal rights.
http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/

Rightsnet
A welfare rights web site for advice workers.
http://www.rightsnet.org.uk

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Full text of the 1948 document.
http://www.un.org/ en/ documents/ udhr/

Your Rights
Liberty's guide to human rights law, with information on the rights of protest, free expression, privacy, freedom of information, redress, suspects, defendants, prisoners, discrimination, immigrants, mental disorder, children and young people, workers, travellers, the bereaved, parents, property and victims and witnesses of crime
http://www.yourrights.org.uk/

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