IRRV Alert January 3 2008

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Human Rights Insight Project

 

 

Foreword

 

 

The report presents the findings from the Human Rights Insight Project, which set out to establish whether human rights could be used empirically as a tool to improve the public’s experiences of public services and if so, how we in Government could encourage and facilitate this.

 

The Project aimed to assess:

 

  • awareness of and attitudes towards human rights, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the key principles underlying the Act, among the general public and among staff in specified public services;
  • the extent to which those key human rights principles are reflected in the delivery of certain major public services;
  • how much this matters to the public in general and to frequent users of the specified services;
  • ways of encouraging public authorities to improve customer satisfaction and/or promote a culture of respect for human rights by incorporating human rights principles in the delivery of services, and
  • the potential for wider strategies to implement the principles underlying the Human Rights Act.

The report assesses the interface between human rights and public perception and demonstrates that the British public recognises that there is a need for a law to protect human rights in this country.

 

The report contains important findings which informed the Human Rights Programme arising from the Review of the implementation of the Human Right Act, set in train by Lord Falconer. The programme was successfully completed in September 2007. I believe it is now time for the findings to be made more widely available.

 

The Human Rights Insight Project was commissioned by the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) whose functions were taken over by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on 9 May 2007. Any reference in the document to DCA should be interpreted as now applying to the Ministry of Justice.

 

Michael Wills MP

Minister for Human Rights

 

Click here to download the full report in pdf format


 


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