Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill I am deeply concerned about the racial discrimination and current lack of human rights in the UK’s nationality laws. I sincerely hope that you will consider the following points in the upcoming Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill and to take the necessary actions [...]
As some of you may have known about the recent debate on Citizenship and questions concerning BN(O), we have, on one hand, been encouraged by the overwhelming support from different Lords and MPs across the all parties. However, the UK government, on the other hand, has been using various excuses to defend her current nationality [...]
Lord Hylton has raised a question on Human Rights for BN(O). Asked by Lord Hylton To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 protect United Kingdom residents and British National (Overseas) passport holders who are not British citizens; whether there are exceptions to any protections given; [...]
Asked by Lord Lester of Herne Hill To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in deciding how to abide by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v United Kingdom, they will have regard to (a) the reasoning in the judgment of 8 December 2008 of Judge Andrew Cheung in the Court [...]
The Core Group has sent letters to the two Houses of Parliament about the latest bill on citizenship.
Mike Hancock CBE MP has raised a question on British nationals and British Citizenship
The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill was read the first time in the House of Lord and is now made available to the public on the Home Office website:
12 January 2009 House of Lords Asked by Lord Laird To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have ratified the Fourth Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; whether they intend to incorporate Article 1 of the Protocol (prohibition of imprisonment for debt); whether persons may be imprisoned [...]
I am very delighted to inform you all that our Hong Kong Secretary went to the Loke Yew Hall of the Hong Kong University “Chris Patten in Dialogue with HKU Community” and raised some questions,