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📆 Did you know it's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek - run by Mental Health Foundation 🔎 Our guide to human rights in mental health and capacity explain how your human rights apply when accessing mental health services and gives real-life examples of rights in action: buff.ly/ydtDX4m

👨‍👩‍👦 It's #InternationalDayofFamilies! 🎉 Today, we're celebrating the human right to private & family life, protected by Article 8 of the Human Rights Act. 💡 First, our CEO Sanchita shares what the right is and why it's so important to us all: #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

💡 Article 8 of the Human Rights Act protects our right to family life 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 It applies to everyone in the UK & comes up in all aspects of our lives from healthcare to asylum to schools & more ✊ On #InternationalDayofFamilies, we're sharing stories of this right in action!

In this next video, Southall Community Alliance explain how they used the Article 8 right to private and family life to oppose plans to close children's centres in their community ⤵️ #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

👩‍👧 Yolande relied on her Article 8 right to family life to ensure that Social Services helped house her and her children together after fleeing domestic abuse. #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

🗣️ RITES Committee member and Lived Experience Expert Charli shares why the Article 8 right to family life is so important to her as an ex-inpatient in a psychiatric ward #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

🤝 Together with @warrspeakup, we created a set of Easy Read postcards to support self-advocates to know and access their human rights. 🔗 Download them all - including our Article 8 postcard - for free on our website: buff.ly/EqNNOgT

BIHR Trustee and All Wales People 1st Chief Executive Joe explains why the Article 8 right to family life is so important to him as somebody on the autism spectrum ⤵️ #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

15-year-old MR relied on his Article 8 right to private life when the UK Govt refused to let him come to the UK to live with his uncle after his parents were killed. #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

RITES Committee Member and Pembrokeshire People First Easy Read Champion Lucy explains why the Article 8 right to family life matters to her as someone who was adopted and who hopes to start a family of her own in the future ⤵️ #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

With @andcarer, we made a guide to human rights advocacy around special educational needs & disabilities. It looks at the Article 8 right to private & family life of all family members affected: buff.ly/DkCMQk6 #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

In this video co-produced with Mencap Liverpool & Sefton, we tell the real-life story of Tim and Sylvia, who used their Article 8 right to private and family life to challenge Social Services' use of cameras in their home ⤵️ #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

Sandeep used his Article 8 right to private and family life to challenge a council's decision to move him away from his home and community. ⤵️ #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

🙋 Feeling inspired? ✊ Get involved with our Human Rights Action Plan! 💡 Co-produced with Lived Experience Experts, this sets out steps we can all take to champion human rights every day: buff.ly/cTajUN5 #InternationalDayofFamilies #WhyOurHumanRightsActMatters

We sent evidence to the Constitution Committee on how the Human Rights Act can & does strengthen the rule of law in the UK. We also made 7 recommendations based on our work with people, public body workers and policymakers across the UK. Read a summary: buff.ly/NIt7BoE

Have you seen this week's human rights news? Stay up-to-date with what's happening across the UK with our weekly round-up: buff.ly/807alXP

✊ Want to champion human rights across the UK? ✍️ Join the Human Rights Action Plan, co-produced by BIHR & the RITES Committee. 💡 This sets out steps we can all take every day as individuals, community members, public body workers or policymakers:  buff.ly/cTajUN5

📆 The Mental Health Bill starts its journey through the House of Commons today. 🔎 Find out more about the Bill and what it could mean for human rights in our plain-language explainer: buff.ly/68K7Y0h

"Without the support of an advocate who was confident using the language of human rights law, Peter’s story could have been very different. At BIHR, we hear stories like this every day" Read Peter's story in our blog on the impact of human rights advocacy buff.ly/cBXC68j

📆 Today, we're continuing our work with an NHS Trust to support staff to put human rights into practice. 💡 Our workshops apply human rights law to real-life scenarios that are tailored to participants' work. 🔎 Read more about on human rights training: buff.ly/p4hgOtb