Values, Rights & Responsibilities
Between June 1999 and December 2000, IGE UK convened four consultations, supported by the Comino and Gordon Cook Foundations, which sought to:
- Examine the links between shared values, rights and responsibilities
- Expose the factors which hinder widespread acceptance of shared values, rights and the practice of personal responsibility
- Develop discussion about the links between our individual rights and individual responsibilities as citizens
Keynote speakers included Francesca Klug OBE, at that time based in King’s College, London, and later at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the LSE, Mark de Pulford, then Head of the Human Rights Unit, located initially in the Home Office, Rabinder Singh QC of the newly formed Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights cases, and Andrew Phillips OBE, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, president and founder of the Citizenship Foundation. Each shared with us their vision of human rights as, in essence, a set of shared ethical values.
This series of consultations led to the creating and piloting of the Citizenship Values Awards in 2002, which were formally launched as the Impetus youth awards at the Young People's Parliament in Birmingham in 2003.
- Values, Rights, and Responsibilities (June 1999)
- Human Rights as a Source of Shared Values (Nov 1999)
- Responsibility and the Human Rights Act (April 2000)
- The Human Rights Act: Threat or Promise? (Dec 2000)
- So you want to change the world? (Sept 2000)