Human rights became directly usable in UK public authority decisions.
The Human Rights Act 1998 brought Convention rights into UK law in a more direct way.
For disabled people, human rights can matter in detention, care, family life, education, treatment, dignity and safeguarding.
Human rights language is crucial when systems reduce people to risk, cost or behaviour.
A common mistake is thinking human rights are abstract. They are often about very real daily life.
Who had power here, who was left outside, and what would have changed if the human being was seen first?
These deep dives open out from this part of the timeline.