> as the traumatic extent of the horrors of the holocaust became known towards the end of the second world war, so did the understanding that a state must never again be able to perpetrate such horrors against its own people. amongst others, it was jewish lawyers, who had lost all their families in the holocaust, who made a major contribution to the international human rights framework that emerged. this was encapsulated in the european convention on human rights and has since been incorporated into uk law through the human rights act. >  case-for-the-european-convention-of -human-rights/
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