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EPISODE · Sep 12, 2025 · 13 MIN

The Impact of the Human Rights Act

from The Politics Shed · host John Gibbs

This podcast explores the foundational concepts of natural and human rights, their historical development, and the distinctions between various types of rights declarations. The impact of these rights on liberal democracy, the role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights, highlighting the differences between advisory and justiciable rights. The podcast also explores the complexities of negative and positive rights, illustrating how they interact and sometimes conflict with each other.

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