Shami Chakrabarti: ‘How do we keep up the fight for democratic values? With solidarity and storytelling’

Our leaders stand in solidarity with France, while attacking the human rights laws that bind us together

Words, first spoken, then delivered by script, print and now digital media, remain the principal means by which humans may contemplate, negotiate, mediate, adjudicate and agitate for a different world without constant need of violence. And human rights are the only truly universal language other than war. In the words of the preamble to the Universal Declaration:

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