Do I have rights to a satellite dish?

bouicca21

It's obviously good for your children to be kept in touch with their roots, but it is highly likely that you can subscribe to a proxy server that will allow you all to watch TV from your country via an internet connection.

jimbog

2ran wrote: »

the right to a satellite dish. From doing some research I've seen articles relating that it's a human right to have one

What makes me angry is that the UN are in Syria and sorting out civil wars in Africa when there's a flagrant human rights violation here in the UK.

Can't wait for the local council to be up in front of the judges in the Haig - that'll teach them to leave wheely bins all over our pavements on bin day

browneyedbazzi

2ran wrote: »

From doing some research I've seen articles relating that it's a human right to have one and that this means they must allow one but I don't know how true that is.

Where did you see these articles and what authority do the people who wrote/published them have?

I sincerely hope (and believe) they are wrong. The term 'human rights' gets bandied about all the time now when people are talking about trivial things and that is seriously devaluing/undermining the term which is actually about very important issues. Shame on you.

propertyman

To noones surprise it is a human right to have a satellite dish after a case in the ECHR.

However that decision was based on the fact that the "landlord" refusesd to supply any access to satellite tv.

In this case it is not regarded as contrary to your human rights as there are some channels which wil cater for your choice if not as many as you would like.

The constructive way to deal with this was to have the council agree to allow installation of a dish directed to pick up the low angle sats and tied into the communal system at your cost.

They may refuse, which they are entitled to do, intitially but make use of the formal complaints system and they might bow to pressure, but you have no right.

Can I suggest that while some exposure to the culture of your orgin is important, it is even more important important to integrate and expose you and your children to the culture which you now live in. Thats part of the reason to move, isnt it?.

Werdnal

:rotfl:Hotbird - sounds like one of those dogdy, late night Sky channels to me!

The block has been provided with a perfectly acceptable Sky system, which is more than a lot of people get, so if you cannot find an alternative way to view the channels you want - ie online etc, then your only other option is to move to somewhere without a lease, where you can do basically anything you want - within your human rights of course!

clark24

Access to a television in any way, shape or form is not, and has never been a 'human right'. It is a luxury that most have come to accept as normal, but not essential to everyday life.

If you feel yours and your childrens human rights are being breached after you have moved to another country purely by the fact you 'only' have a television that has access to the many thousand channels that, in the majority, pertain to the culture of your current country of habitation then you should exercise your human right to move back to your homeland (if it is that vital to their well-being).

The UK is already more accommodating than most other areas in the world regarding providing facilities that allow people from all countries to have access to the important things of their culture (places to worship, translators, cuisine, education etc) but to be fair watching tv isn't going to teach children enough about a culture, certainly not as much as living in it.

So why live in the UK and why buy a property that has restrictions on what satellite channels you can access?

So move back home so they can learn in the best way possible about their cultural roots, or move to a property that allows unrestricted television channels, but please don't ever call your current situation a breach of human rights, not when the world is mourning the loss of many thousands of children and people are dying daily due to genuine breaches. The human rights act was never set up so people could watch TV.

tom717

Your human rights are listed here. Please tell us where you think putting up a satellite dish is covered.

There are people that seek to undermine our human rights by obfuscating what they mean to the general public. It wouldn't surprise me if this ended up in one of the tabloids. Of course, they would twist it even further and we end up with headlines like "Sky TV a human right for immigrants"

propertyman

Werdnal wrote: »

then your only other option is to move to somewhere without a lease, where you can do basically anything you want - within your human rights of course!

And of course watching TV from countries where "human rights " are laughed at.

Particularly for women.:eek:

SternMusik

googler wrote: »

Which foreign part of the Middle East sounds like the OP's user name?

Answers on a postcard, please.

Which part of the Middle East isn't foreign?? (from the perspective of the UK)

SternMusik

propertyman wrote: »

And of course watching TV from countries where "human rights " are laughed at.

Particularly for women.:eek:

The OP hasn't mentioned where he/she is from? Could be Latvia or Norway for all we know. In any case, there is no need to slag OP off for being a foreigner.