Amnesty Blogs: Belfast and Beyond : Northern Ireland Bill of Rights: let the people have their say
Source: http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3213
I previously blogged about Shaun 'Seven Houses' Woodward – the ‘butler-toting’, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, potentially seeking to deny the inclusion of basic housing rights and other economic rights protections in a NI Bill of Rights.
In his recent oral evidence to Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, he suggested that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had "gone so well beyond the brief they were given” in formulating their advice to the government on the Bill of Rights.
Now, he has suffered the embarrassment of the government, of which he is a member, correcting him in an answer to a Parliamentary Question in the House of Lords.
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