Oscar winner Colman battles human rights abuse 'on our doorstep'

OLIVIA Colman is starring in a new film to highlight the type of "human rights abuses" that led to the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale.

- Aine Fox

Olivia, 50, plays the lawyer of a mum whose baby daughter dies due to the poor conditions of their social housing accommodation.

It is based on a real-life story and echoes the plight of little Awaab, who died in 2020 of a respiratory condition caused by mould at his housing association flat.

The Crown star Olivia said yesterday: "It's easy to feel like we do enough, that human rights are for someone else to handle.

"We're so accustomed to seeing human rights violations in other countries across the world that many of us believe these abuses are far away and have nothing to do with us.

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