Human Rights
UK-based membership of the Swiss assisted dying centre Dignitas has grown by 50% in the last five years, new figures show. In 2024, there were 2,231 members of non-profit Dignitas (full name DIGNITAS – To live with dignity, die with dignity) compared to 1,430 in 2019. Membership – a prerequisite to having an assisted death… Read more »
Tom Gordon MP has put forward an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill to reduce the deadline for the Government to introduce assisted dying from four years to three. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision have welcomed the amendment. The first draft of the Bill set the maximum time the Government could take… Read more »
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A record 722,000 people were added to the DNA database last year, it has been revealed. The number led to angry accusations from opposition parties and civil liberties groups that the government is creating the world’s biggest DNA database “by stealth”. “Rarely has so much effort been made to collect so much intrusive and irrelevant… Read more »
The private details of 100,000 armed forced personnel has gone missing, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted. EDS, the MoD’s main IT contractor had been in charge of the information at the time it went missing. “Once again, the loss of so much confidential information shows the reckless approach this government takes with our… Read more »
