14. legal rights

• When law protects a human right

  It becomes a legal right
• How a human right becomes a legal right

  1. Law passed by Parliament

  2. Law changed to make it illegal to refuse entry to a public place because of ethnicity
• The protection of many of these rights has been brought together in the Equality Act
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  Says you have a right to a fair wage
• The minimum wage Act make this illegal right so all adult workers in England and Wales must be paid the minimum wage
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Says everyone has a right to equal pay for equal work
• The Equality Act made equal pay a legal right
• Human rights that are also legal rights in the UK

  • The right to an education
  • The right to fair conditions at work
  • The right to a fair trial
  • The right to follow a religion
  • The right to vote in elections