Letter: Human rights

As the debate continues over the Conservative plans to scrap the Human Rights Act 1998 (your report, 20 May), attention is focused disproportionately on the act's perceived failures, rather than its many successes and the numerous arguments against its being revoked. Numerous cases illustrate the positive impact it has had on the lives of people in the UK. By scrapping it, the government would endanger this progress and damage the positive effects that human rights principles have

GRAEME McGREGOR

Amnesty International UK

Edinburgh