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Explain how the Human Rights of UK citizens changed as a result of the Human Rights Act 1998
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Explain how the Human Rights of UK citizens changed as a result of the Human Rights Act 1998 This essay will explain how the human rights of UK citizens have changed as a result of the Human Rights Act in 1998. After experiencing the horrors during World War II, particularly the genocide committed by the Nazi regime, the world felt that a declaration against deliberate human rights violations was necessary to prevent such violations from recurring. The suffering and death of millions of innocent people could not be ignored and war could no longer be used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity. On the 10th of December 1948, representatives from 48 nations came together at the United Nations in Paris to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration is a list of basic rights, which the nations agreed were "inherent" and "equal" for all human beings,...
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