Overly restrictive recommendations made by the Bill of Rights Forum could damage community relations instead of allowing rights and freedoms to flourish, the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland has warned. The forum brings together representatives from Northern Ireland’s five main political parties as well as churches, trade union and business leaders, and is charged with advising the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on a possible Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. It submitted its recommendations to the commission last week, in spite of a boycott by the DUP and the Catholic Church over the report’s failure to include the rights of the unborn child.

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