Editorial: Calls to modernise human rights law too often assume that hostile public opinion cannot be changed by argument from first principles

The ECHR is seen by its critics as a major barrier to attempts to deport illegal migrants from the country.

Ministers in Strasbourg have been discussing the European Convention on Human Rights and how it affects migration

Editorial: Calls to modernise human rights law too often assume that hostile public opinion cannot be changed by argument from first principles

Previously sceptical MPs now want to modernise ECHR to prevent an overreach of the law and losing to the far right

UK seeks revision of the European Convention on Human Rights amid pressure from the far right.

As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists