In recent years, there has been extensive international debate about lethal autonomous weapons, referred to by some as ‘killer robots’. With disagreements regarding how they should be defined and if they should be banned, this article explores these issues as well as the UK’s stance on them.
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Debate on 21 November: Her Majesty’s Government’s Policy Towards Countries Responsible for Violations of Human Rights (341 KB, PDF)
This Library Note provides information on the Government’s human rights policy and the action it has taken aimed to secure the improvement of human rights abroad. It also provides information on the debate over how the UK might best influence foreign governments on the issue of human rights, including in the context of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) hosted by Sri Lanka on 15 to 17 November 2013.
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Debate on 21 November: Her Majesty’s Government’s Policy Towards Countries Responsible for Violations of Human Rights (341 KB, PDF)
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 provides the UK Supreme Court and the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland with the power to depart from retained EU case law after the end of the transition period. Draft regulations, introduced by the Government in October 2020, seek to extend this power to the Court of Appeal and other equivalent courts and tribunals. This article looks at the detail of the regulations and recent scrutiny that has taken place.
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‘Hate crime’ is used to describe a range of criminal behaviour that a victim or other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person’s disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity. These aspects of a person’s identity are referred to as ‘protected characteristics’. There have been recent calls to extend the protected characteristics to cover sex and gender. This would see misogyny become a hate crime.
