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Other Commissions

The Scottish Human Rights Commission is one of over 80 national human rights instititions around the world. The other Commissions are grouped by region, and the International Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Protection of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC) is the overseeing body for accreditation.

The Commission has been pleased to welcome representatives from a number of Commissions including Great Britain, Ireland, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, and South Africa to Scotland over the past year.

 


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Organisations

AFRICA

  • Algeria National Human Rights Commission of Algeria

  • Angola Provedor di Justiça di direitos 

  • Bénin Benin Human Rights Commission

  • Burkina Faso  National Human Rights Commission of Burkina Faso

  • Cameroon National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms

  • Chad Chad National Human Rights Commission

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo  National Human Rights Observatory

  • Egypt National Council for Human Rights

  • Ethiopia Ethiopian Human Rights Commission 

  • Gabon National Human Rights Commission 

  • Ghana Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice

  • Kenya Kenya National Commission on Human Rights

  • Madagascar National Human Rights Commission

  • Malawi Malawi Human Rights Commission 

  • Mali Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme 

  • Mauritania Commissariat aux Droits de l’Homme, a la Lutte contre la Pauvreté et l’Insertion 

  • Mauritius National Human Rights Commission A Morocco Human Rights Advisory Council 

  • Namibia Office of the Ombudsman

  • Niger National Commission on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

  • Nigeria Nigerian Human Rights Commission

  • Rwanda National Commission for Human Rights

  • Senegal Senegalese Committee for Human Rights

  • South Africa South African Human Rights Commission

  • Tanzania Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance

  • Togo National Human Rights Commission

  • Tunisia Higher Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 

  • Uganda Uganda Human Rights Commission

  • Zambia Permanent Human Rights Commission

AMERICAS

  • Antigua and Barbuda Office of the Ombudsman

  • Argentina Defensoría del Pueblo de la Nación Argentina (Ombudsman)

  • Barbados Office of the Ombudsman

  • Belize Office of the Ombudsman 

  • Bermuda Bermuda Ombudsman 

  • Bolivia Defensor del Pueblo

  • Canada Canadian Human Rights Commission

  • Colombia Defensor del Pueblo de la República de Colombia

  • Costa Rica Defensoria de los Habitantes

  • Ecuador Defensor del Pueblo de la República de Ecuador

  • El Salvador C.A. Procuraduría de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos

  • Guatemala Procurador de los Derechos Humanos

  • Guyana Office of the Ombudsman 

  • Haiti Office de la Protection du Citoyen 

  • Honduras Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos 

  • Jamaica Office of the Public Defender 

  • Mexico National Human Rights Commission

  • Nicaragua Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de Nicaragua

  • Panama Defensoria del Pueblo de la Republica de Panama

  • Paraguay Defensoria del Pueblo de la República del Paraguay

  • Peru Defensoria del Pueblo de Perú A Puerto Rico Oficina del Procurador del Ciudadano

  • Saint Lucia Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner 

  • Trinidad and Tobago Office of the Ombudsman of Trinidad and Tobago 

  • Venezuela Ombudsman Institution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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ASIA PACIFIC

  • Afghanistan Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

  • Australia Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

  • Fiji Fiji Human Rights Commission 

  • Hong Kong SAR

  • China Equal Opportunities Commission

  • India National Human Rights Commission

  • Indonesia National Commission for Human Rights

  • Islamic Republic of Iran Islamic Human Rights Commission

  • Jordan National Centre for Human Rights

  • Malaysia Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)

  • Maldives Human Rights Commission of the Maldives 

  • Mongolia National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia

  • Nepal National Human Rights Commission of Nepal

  • New Zealand Human Rights Commission

  • Palestine Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen's Rights

  • Philippines Commission on Human Rights

  • Qatar National Committee for Human Rights

  • Republic of Korea National Human Rights Commission

  • Sri Lanka The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka

  • Thailand  The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand

  • Timor Leste Office of the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice

EUROPE

  • Albania The People's Advocate

  • Armenia Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia 

  • Austria The Austrian Ombudsman Board

  • Azerbaijan Human Rights Commission 

  • Belgium Centre for equal opportunities and opposition to racism

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina The Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bulgaria Bulgarian Parliamentary Ombudsman 

  • Croatia Office of the Croatian Ombudsman 

  • Cyprus National Institute for the Protection of Human Rights 

  • Czech Republic  Ombudsman 

  • Denmark The Danish Institute for Human Rights

  • Finland Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland  

  • France National Consultative Commission of Human Rights

  • Georgia Office of Public Defender of Georgia

  • Germany The German Institute for Human Rights

  • Great Britain Equality and Human Rights Commission 

  • Greece Greek National Commission for Human Rights

  • Hungary Parliamentary Commissioner on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities 

  • Ireland Irish Human Rights Commission

  • Italy Commissione per i Diritti Umani - Présidence du Conseil des Ministres 

  • Kazakhstan Commissioner for Human Rights (National Ombudsman) 

  • Kosovo Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo 

  • Kyrgyzstan Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic 

  • Latvia Latvian National Human Rights Office 

  • Lithuania The Seimas Ombudsmen 

  • Luxembourg Consultative Commission of Human Rights

  • Macedonia Human Rights Ombudsman of Macedonia 

  • Moldova The Centre for Human Rights of Moldova 

  • Netherlands Equal Treatment Commission

  • Northern Ireland, UK Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)

  • Norway Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

  • Poland Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection

  • Portugal Ombudsman Office

  • Romania Advocate of the People  

  • Russia Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation

  • Serbia and Montenegro Office of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Montenegro 

  • Slovakia Slovak National Centre for Human Rights 

  • Slovenia Human Rights Ombudsman

  • Spain The Office of the Ombudsman

  • Sweden(BO) Children’s Ombudsman

  • Sweden(DO) The Swedish Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination (DO)

  • Sweden(HO) The Swedish Disability Ombudsman

  • Sweden(JämO) Ombudsman for Equal Rights

  • Switzerland Federal Commission against Racism (FCR)

  • Ukraine Ukrainian Parliament Commisioner for Human Rights

  • Uzbekistan Authorized Person of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Human Rights