42 day detention plans examined
This Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, 'Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Eleventh Report): 42 Days and Public Emergencies' (HL 116 / HC 635), comments on the adequacy of the additional safeguards that the Government has indicated it intends to bring forward to meet the human rights concerns about its proposal to extend the maximum period of pre-charge detention to 42 days.
Human Rights Annual Report 2007
The 'Human Rights Annual Report 2007' (Cm. 7340), is the
tenth Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) annual report on human rights,
which publishes just a few weeks after the FCO's new strategic framework and
mission statement. The 2007 Report shows how human rights will remain fully
integrated with their four new policy goals.
42 day detention human rights reviewed
'Counter-Terrorism
Policy and Human Rights: 42 Days’ (HL 23 / HC 156) examines the
Government's intention, as part of its counter-terrorism measures, to increase
the pre-charge detention limit from 28 to 42 days.
Children in care suffer ill health and educational
underachievement
Examining the question ‘What is the best way to care for
children unable to grow up with their birth parents?’, this Report also
reviews children’s services reforms carried out under the
Every
Child Matters programme, and puts forward numerous proposals including
creating a Centre of Excellence for Children’s and Families' Services.
Highly skilled migrants immigration rights
examined
This Report
‘Highly
Skilled Migrants: Changes to Immigration Rules’ (HL 173/HC 993) examines
the changes made to the Immigration Rules in 2006, in the light of the impact
on the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme.
Eliminating world poverty ‘our common challenge’
This White Paper, 'Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future (Cm. 7656)', deals with the challenges presented by the global recession, climate change, and fragile and failing states. It reaffirms the Government's commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the necessity of working in partnership with other countries and organisations towards that end.