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Big tech firms profit from disorder. Don’t let them use these riots to push for more surveillance | Shami Chakrabarti

Aug 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shami Chakrabarti

Far-right riots may not be the calmest moment for a reasoned debate about the regulation of big tech, but the eruption of racist violence in England and Northern Ireland raises urgent questions about the responsibilities of social media companies, and how the police use facial recognition technology. While social media isn’t the root of these riots, it has allowed inflammatory content to spread like wildfire and helped rioters coordinate.
why we need human rights now more than ever

May 6, 2024 | msn.com | Shami Chakrabarti

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The big idea: why we need human rights now more than ever

May 6, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shami Chakrabarti

In the three decades since I became a lawyer, human rights – once understood as an uncomplicated good, a tool for securing dignity for the vulnerable against abuses by the powerful – have increasingly come under assault. Perhaps never more so than in the current moment: we are constantly talking about human rights, but often in a highly sceptical way.
Human Rights

May 2, 2024 | penguin.co.uk | Shami Chakrabarti

Skip to ContentA powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsAfter the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards, for privacy, fair trials and free speech, and outlawing torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality, and peace.
MPs have back the offensive Rwanda bill. Here's how it threatens our human rights

Jan 18, 2024 | bigissue.com | Shami Chakrabarti

They are wonderful movies but which serious political movement would actually name itself after the “five families” of The Godfather saga? Still, the governing right wing of the Conservative Party was more soap opera than cinema when their much-anticipated rebellion over the so-called “Safety of Rwanda Bill” evaporated. This allowed legislation designed to overturn the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court to pass through the House of Commons on Wednesday night.
Sunak and Braverman make me ashamed

Oct 11, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Shami Chakrabarti

In times of dangerous populism all over the world, it is the bitterest irony, for me at least, that in Britain the attack on hard-won universal democratic values enshrined after the horrors of two world wars comes from the British children of outsiders. They, like me, have benefitted from both the migrant family experience and excellent educations. The first British Asian prime minister and his right-hand bad cop home secretary can no longer be accused of sounding mere dog whistles.
The rule of law is being diminished. We should all be concerned

Sep 22, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Shami Chakrabarti

Tom Bingham, former master of the rolls and one of the greatest jurists of my lifetime, published his seminal book The Rule of Law in 2010. He asked me to help promote it as he endeavoured to make this crucial constitutional principle more accessible to the people it is designed to protect. Sadly, in the years since its publication, fewer and fewer people are protected. This is because the UK is backsliding on its rule of law obligations.
Into the Night by Matt Lloyd-Rose

Apr 26, 2023 | panmacmillan.com | Polly Morland |Shami Chakrabarti |Iain Sinclair |Matt Lloyd-Rose

Matt Lloyd-RoseSynopsis'Acutely observed and tenderly written' - Polly Morland, bestselling author of A Fortunate Women'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA former carer, primary school teacher and education researcher, Matt Lloyd-Rose became a volunteer police officer to try to understand the challenges facing young people in Brixton, the place he lived and taught. He got more than he bargained for.
‘A call to arms’: Austerity justice book published today

Mar 14, 2023 | thejusticegap.com | Shami Chakrabarti

Join co-authors Jon Robins and Dan Newman at the launch of Justice in a time of austerity: stories from a broken justice system (Bristol University Press) on Thursday June 24 and purchase the book at a 30% discount. The launch is hosted by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.
Anti-Semitism still prevalent in parts of Labour, says Board of Deputies chief

Feb 13, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Gabriella Swerling |Shami Chakrabarti

Anti-Semitism is “still prevalent” in parts of the Labour Party, the chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews has claimed. Michael Wegier said the Jewish community had experienced “a very difficult period” when Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader from 2015 to 2020, adding that while Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Corbyn’s successor, had made progress on tackling anti-Semitism, work remained to be done.