Rejected petition Keep the UK a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights

It has been revealed that Theresa May has plans to remove the UK from the ECHR, a convention designed by British lawyers after WW2 to ensure that atrocities like the Holocaust could never happen again on European soil. The Convention IS NOT the European Human Rights Act, and is not part of the EU.

More details

The ECHR gives you the freedom from torture, slavery, discrimination and gives you the freedom to life, liberty and security, freedom of expression, association, thought, conscience and religion. Many of the fundamental freedoms we enjoy today in the UK is because of the lawyers in the 1950s who wrote this convention. This is what defines the UK as separate from other authoritarian regimes.
It's vital we put public pressure on Theresa May to not pull us out of the ECHR - no good can come of it.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/162417

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 29 December 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.