{"id":1492,"date":"2019-05-09T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality-2\/?page_id=1492"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:14:52","slug":"diversity-guide-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/guidance\/diversity\/diversity-guide-human-rights","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Guide &#8211; Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Human Rights include:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Right to life<br>\u2022 Protection from torture<br>\u2022 Protection from slavery and forced labour<br>\u2022 Right to liberty and security<br>\u2022 Right to a fair trial<br>\u2022 No punishment without law<br>\u2022 Right to respect for private and family life<br>\u2022 Freedom of thought, belief and religion<br>\u2022 Freedom of expression<br>\u2022 Freedom of assembly and association<br>\u2022 Right to marry and have a family<br>\u2022 Protection from discrimination (in relation to the above)<br>\u2022 Protection of property<br>\u2022 Right to education<br>\u2022 Right to free elections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need to balance two or more Rights, some Human Rights are \u2018absolute\u2019 whilst others are \u2018conditional\u2019 &#8211; so bear this in mind when prioritising people\u2019s rights. For example, a Right to Life would have higher importance than a Freedom of Expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Human Rights visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">British Institute of Human Rights<\/a>&nbsp; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/en\/human-rights\/human-rights-act\" rel=\"noopener\">Equality and Human Rights Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights include: \u2022 Right to life\u2022 Protection from torture\u2022 Protection from slavery and forced labour\u2022 Right to liberty and security\u2022 Right to a fair trial\u2022 No punishment without law\u2022 Right to respect for private and family life\u2022 Freedom of thought, belief and religion\u2022 Freedom of expression\u2022 Freedom of assembly and association\u2022 Right to marry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"parent":1354,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 11:13:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions\/4222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/equality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}