Salman Rushdie talks about the burning of his book The Satanic Verses in Bradford that day, and about the decision by WH Smith to withdraw the book from sale in their stores.

This controversial pamphlet argues against the censorship of books, and is often held up as the first impassioned plea for free speech. The pamphlet is presented as a speech ‘to...

The Human Rights Act received royal assent on 9 November 1998 and came into force on 2 October 2000. The purpose of this legislation was to incorporate into United Kingdom law t...

The European Convention on Human Rights is a pan-European treaty, drafted by a committee of the Council of Europe in which the British Conservative politician and lawyer, David ...

Nelson Mandela, put on trial for his life in 1964, declared from the dock his admiration for western democracy, stating that Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of ...

For 800 years, Magna Carta has inspired those struggling for rights and freedoms, and many of its core principles are echoed in contemporary human rights legislation. Here Profe...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) represents the first global codification of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. In 1947, the newly establi...