UK's Braverman says UN refugee convention shouldn't protect women and gay people just facing discrim

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Source: The Guardian

Braverman says UN refugee convention shouldn’t protect women and gay people just facing discrimination – UK politics live

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Braverman says UN refugee convention shouldn't protect women and gay people just facing discrimination

Good morning. Suella Braverman, the home secretary, is in Washington today where she is going to deliver a speech that marks a significant escalation of her attempts to dismantle current laws protecting refugees. In part this is a personal crusade – Politico this morning says she is firing the starting gun for the next Conservative leadership contest, which is a reasonable take – but it is also government/party policy. What she is saying is consistent with the direction taken by Rishi Sunak.

The government passed the Illegal Immigration Act because it wants to establish the principle that people who arrive in the UK illegally on small boats have no right to claim asylum. The act has become law, but it has not been implemented yet because arguably it goes beyond what is allowed under international human rights law and and these issues have got to be resolved by the supreme court.

Braverman today is making a simple counter-proposal; if international law (specifically the United Nations 1951 refugee convention) is the problem, let’s just change it.

Extracts from the speech have been briefed in advance, and they show that Braverman is making a provocative argument, grounded in the theory that a convention drawn up more than 70 years ago does not work today.

• Braverman will claim that almost 800 million people could claim the right to move to another country under the convention.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/sep/26/suella-braverman-un-refugee-convention-discrimination-uk-politics-latest-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-651286208f08c424f085615f#block-651286208f08c424f085615f

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1. Homophobic, Misogynistic bullshit.