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LIBERTY director Shami Chakrabarti warned yesterday the Tory attacks on human rights could spark a return to the apartheid of South Africa.
The human rights campaigner and lawyer reminded Equity delegates that in 1965 it called on its members not to support apartheid in South Africa.
But Ms Chakrabarti said Conservative plans to axe the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights amounted to “British rights for British workers.”
She warned that once a government starts determining who is more deserving of human rights it will start treating people as less than human, risking a return to the apartheid in South Africa.
“We need your help again to save human rights,” she told delegates at the acting union.
“Why should human rights abuses around the world be an excuse for wars when they are being attacked at home?”
