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Chapter 3

Human rights

Liberty is the leading organization monitoring the effectiveness of the Human Rights Act and bringing test cases. It has a range of useful information at www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk.

The Department of Health maintains a web site at www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Equalityandhumanrights/Humanrights/index.htm which includes, in particular, useful case studies with reference to actual court decisions on the impact of the Human Rights Act on areas of work which will be relevant to social workers and health professionals.

The Government operates a more general human rights web site. The current web site address is www.justice.gov.uk/whatwedo/humanrights.htm. It is particularly useful for the list of web links it provides.

The United Nations has all of the international charters on human rights and discrimination issues at: www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx.

Useful guidance to the HRA include the following:

British Institute of Human Rights: Your Human Rights Guides, 2006 (available from www.bihr.org.uk).

Department for Constitutional Affairs: A Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998 (3rd edn, October 2006).

Department for Constitutional Affairs: Human rights: human lives - a handbook for public authorities (available from www.justice.gov.uk/docs/hr-handbook-public-authorities.pdf.

Jenny Watson and Mitchell Woolf: Human Rights Act Toolkit, (LAG, 2003).

Useful books include:

Luke Clements (ed.), Human Rights Act: A Success Story? (Blackwell, 2005).

K. Starmer, European Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights, (LAG, new edition due 2008).

Wadham, Mountfield, and Edmundson, Blackstone's Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998 (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Discrimination law

Camilla Palmer et al., Discrimination Law Handbook (Legal Action Group, 2007).

Declan O'Dempsey et al., Age Discrimination Handbook (Legal Action Group, 2006).

The value of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is considered by U. Kilkelly and L. Lundy, 'Children's rights in action: using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as an auditory tool' (2006) 18(3) CFam 331.