Civil Rights, Equality and Human Rights Acts

Statutes whose primary subject is the legal standing, equality or protection of persons or groups, recorded here as the historical record whether the statute extends or curtails those rights. Belongs here: the Human Rights Act 1998, incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into United Kingdom law; the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forced relocation of Native American nations from ancestral lands in the eastern United States; and the Population Registration Act, 1950, the South African statute that classified every resident by race as a foundation of apartheid. Does not belong here: a statute whose primary subject is electoral participation rather than civil status generally, grouped under electoral and political rights acts instead.