Blogs

At the heart of human rights lies a simple yet powerful idea: everyone has the right to shape the decisions that affect their lives. From decisions about our education, work and healthcare, to the laws, policies and systems that affect the society we live in – participation isn’t just a principle, it’s a right. At […]

Guide, Web pages

Human rights are recognised in international treaties that the UK was instrumental in establishing. One of these treaties is the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) -you can read our plain English version of this treaty here. The ICESCR is an international human rights treaty that was ratified by the UK in […]

Blogs

Just Fair’s Lived Experience Advisory Group member Fatiha reflects on its first year. In October 2023, the Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) met for the first time. Since then, we have done so much together to help Just Fair integrate our voices – the voices of lived experience – with the work of the organisation. […]

Submissions

May 2024 - Just Fair submission to CRAE's call for evidence to inform their report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This submission focuses on the rights of children and young people in asylum accommodation, particularly in relation to health and education.

Presentations

25 April 2024. Emma Morgan (Sen Reform NI) presentation to everyday rights conversation discussion session on rights resourcing.

Blogs

By Kahra Wayland-Larty, Associate at Just Fair and in conversation with Dylan McLeish, lived experience advisory group (LEAG) member. Since October last year, I’ve been working with the most inspiring group of people from across the UK to develop a proposal for how Just Fair can better integrate the perspectives and expertise of people with […]

Reports, Tools

April 2024: In this resource we share what communities told us about the experience of human rights in London and map these issues to human rights law.

Tools

March 2024: This resource introduces rights under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, an international treaty ratified by the UK in 1976, the concepts that underpin them, and the laws that protect them.

Tools

March 2024: This resource introduces human rights framing – the process of putting human rights at the centre of our campaigns and everyday conversations and calling for them to be at the forefront of policy and practice. It shows how understanding human rights not just as legal concepts, but as tools we can use in our communities, as activists and within our organisations to strengthen our campaigns can help to change harmful narratives, alleviate suffering, and help to hold the UK Government and public authorities to account on their human rights obligations – local, regional, and international.

Tools

March 2024: This resource is designed for civil society activists like these. It introduces ‘rights-based approaches’ and provides examples of when taking a human rights-based approach has helped organisations and activists to make change