The 'European' parts included in the Human Rights Act of 1998 were not entirely specific to *Health and Safety* regulation but were drawn up in the 50s (where these two words had barely been introduced to one another) and born out of an understandable desperation that Europe could never undergo the horrors of the past ever again.
The convention seeks to denounce things such as torture, denial of liberty and all the basic things that allow a human being a 'dignified life'.
We had unions and workers rights regardless of that and still would.
No one can disagree with any of those aspirations, but I have been life long pissed off that religion trumps women's rights in many cases.
In particular, those EU countries that deny women abortions.
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