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Ahead of the Lib Dem Party Conference, we are reminding the Party of its commitment to human rights reasserted in the context of the new parliament.

The Lib Dem manifesto published prior to the recent general election included a series of progressive and workable policies which the human rights sector has been advocating for years to be enacted. This included funding community-sponsorship projects for refugees as an alternative to the cruel, costly, and unnecessary policy of immigration detention. Elsewhere the Lib Dems promoted schemes for safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees. These are issues which parliamentarians are currently dealing with. As the third largest party, the Liberal Democrats are in a fantastic position to influence government policy. We hope to see these commitments to human rights re-emphasised at the upcoming Lib Dem Party Conference.