Thread by @RunnymedeTrust

The plan to scrap the Human Rights Act in the #QueensSpeech & introduce a new Bill of Rights will undermine the rights of Black and ethnic minority groups. Here’s why 🧵

Proposals include the introduction of a ‘permission stage’ in bringing a human rights case to court👇

If an ethnic minority person has been discriminated against by a local authority, they would first have to show they have faced a ‘significant disadvantage’ to bring a case

A permission stage has been explicitly articulated as an attempt to weed out “frivolous” claims.

The notion that any claim that sets out to assert human rights is ‘frivolous’ is something we should contest, and the permission stage will only serve to undermine rights.

The Bill of Rights will also introduce a so-called ‘responsibilities framework’ which would in essence create “different classes” of claimants on the basis of their past behaviour 🚨

This is likely to negatively impact ethnic minority groups in particular who already face huge disparities in the criminal justice system

We cannot forget the fundamental role that the Human Rights Act has had in progressing race equality. The Act guarantees that human rights and fundamental freedoms are applied without discrimination.

We must act to save our rights & stop the Human Rights Act from being replaced