UK Home Secretary: Wilful negligence of Asylum Seekers? (15th edition)

Current Criminal Law 15 (2):2-8 (2022)
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Abstract

Mens rea means a guilty mind; guilty knowledge and wilfulness without clear permission to do so. The 1924 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, followed by the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child have all been ignored by the UK Home Secretary and the UK Prime Minister. These universal laws place the child in the nexus of the State, the parents, and the broader society. The 1959 Declaration claims in its Preamble, that “mankind owes to the child the best it has to give” and it contains ten principles outlining numerous rights of children. See also, Philip Alston, “The Best Interests Principles towards a reconciliation of culture and human rights”, (1994), 8, International Journal of Law and the Family, 1-25, 6.

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Sally Serena Ramage
University of Wolverhampton (PhD)

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