We hit the airwaves again this weekend to speak up for human rights - this time on Al Jazeera's flagship discussion show, Inside Story.

Our CEO appeared alongside the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Michael McDowell and The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty. 

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Twenty-seven European states are now pushing to change the way the European Convention on Human Rights is applied in response to rising anti-migrant sentiment. 

This has been presented as pragmatism, but it looks a lot like appeasement and, as Jennifer Nadel warns, risks undermining human rights and the judges who uphold them. 

Pinning the blame for the migration ‘crisis’ on the ECHR is a dangerous distraction from the real causes, including conflict, economic inequality and inadequate legal routes for those seeking protection.

Human rights are universal and cannot be adjusted according to political expediency.

Appeasing those who attack human rights doesn’t work, it just makes them stronger. Right now, it is migration, but next it could be prisoners or any other group. 

In the discussion, Jennifer calls out politicians who conflate genuine asylum seekers with economic migrants and warns that bending human rights law to political pressure ultimately corrodes democracy itself. 

This is an urgent conversation about a debate that is moving fast and matters deeply.

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At Compassion in Politics, we believe human rights must be defended precisely when it is inconvenient and out of fashion, because compromise now carries a cost for everyone.

Thank you for standing with us and helping us campaign to protect our rights.

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The Compassion in Politics team