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6 - The Politics of Vigilance: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Activism during and beyond the Age of New Labour

from Part III - NGOs and the Consolidation of Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Chris Moores
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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This chapter reflects on the current activities of the civil liberties lobby, which has been transformed through the integration of the language of human rights. This transformation produced and represented significant shifts in political and social activism over the twentieth century. Yet it would be also be unwise to read this history as the triumph of human rights as an ideological or practical framework for the twenty-first century. Rather, the continued work of civil liberties groups during the 1990s and the early 2000s, including the work of Liberty and a range of single-issue mobilisations against I.D. cards or terror legislation and its policing implications, shows the continued value of civil liberties traditions to campaigners when combined with appeals to human rights. This is especially important in the context of a backlash against human rights legislation and the identification of the rights legislation with the programmes of the Labour Party. The significance of activism based on civil liberties was not lost even in an age of human rights.
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Print publication year: 2017

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