"Brexit: What it Does and Doesn’t Mean for Human Rights,"

…[T]he Human Rights Act stitched the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into British law…The removal of the Human Rights Act, whilst likely to come in tandem with Brexit, is neither dependent on Brexit nor Brexit upon it. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is…an EU body…so Brexit would entail Britain formally cutting the link between the ECJ and the UK…The European Union’s treaty…Articles 45-48 recognise the rights of workers…and their rights to work freely across the EU without discrimination based on nationality…There is also important case law establishing workers’ rights that has emerged from the EU system, including the ECJ…The…argument…by some pro-EU liberals that the EU ‘stands for human rights’…is unconvincing…[T]he EU occupies a double role…of both reinforcing the norms of human rights…and simultaneously participating in human rights violations…Brexit…will damage human rights provisions…But staying in the EU now also can’t be a vote for the status quo – it should become a moment to combat the structural violence perpetuated by the EU itself…