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Climate Change: Huge leap forward for Paris Agreement on 21st Sept

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As you are no doubt aware when it comes to addressing climate change the Paris agreement is not a done deal. Currently, there are 180 signatories to the Paris Agreement.  Of these, only 27 States have also deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval accounting in total for 39.08 % of the total global greenhouse … Read more

UN Human Rights council has become a complete farce

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The latest bit of news to emerge from the UN Human Rights council is that Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been issuing tweets in which he made some truly bizarre claims. What exactly is this economic “Urgent Threat” that he is babbling about, and in what way exactly is free-market economics … Read more

Plans for Human Rights Act to be scrapped in UK

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Currently the UK is legally bound via the 1998 Human Rights Act to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). That however is about to change. What we currently have in place has three main effects. These are as follows: 1. It incorporates the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) … Read more

Telling people how to dress in public

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Over in France the concepts of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, apparently only applies to those that dress correctly … The UK’s Independent reports the latest move as follows … Burkini ban: First French Muslim women fined for wearing garment on beach in Cannes Fines have been imposed on women wearing burkinis in the southern French town of Cannes.  … Read more

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