Qualified & Unqualified Human Rights

[sairejayne]

What is the difference between a qualified and an unqualifed human right. Can anyone give me a definition for "unqualified human right" as well please.

Thanks

[TWR]

If you are born in the UK you are Unqualified, if you came here on a banana boat you have all the rights with help you want.

[sairejayne]

Forgot to say, as set out in The Human Rights Act

[New Judge]

Some of the Articles contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are "qualified". That is to say, there are exceptions to the absolute right.

For example, Article 4 prohibits slavery, servitude and forced labour. However it is "qualified" by exemptions for "labour which is done as a normal part of imprisonment, in the form of compulsory military service or work done as an alternative by conscientious objectors, required to be done during a state of emergency, and considered to be a part of a person's normal civic obligations."

Article 3 prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". There are no exceptions or limitations on this right.

[sairejayne]

Thanks New Judge! That's really helped!!