The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is an international human rights agreement written by and for disabled people. The Commission works with its sister national human rights organisations in the UK, and civil society organisations, to monitor its implementation in Scotland.

A human rights-based approach involves applying the principles of participation, accountability, non-discrimination, empowerment and legality to addressing an issue. The Commission is working with See Me to help embed a human rights-based approach in the work it supports to end mental health stigma and discrimination.

Our corporate accounts have been laid before Scottish Parliament. The laying number is SG/2014/272 and the accounts are available in PDF format.

Minutes of the Scottish Human Rights Commission meeting November 2014.

Economic and Social Rights in Scotland: Lessons from the past; options for the future. A lecture for International Human Rights Day 2014 by W. James Wolffe QC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.