Poverty represents a failure to fulfil a range of human rights including the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, housing and the right to earn a decent living.
Police play a vital role in defending some of our most fundamental human rights. They support our ability to live free from violence, crime and fear, and help create an environment within which other rights and freedoms can be enjoyed. Since it was established in 2008, the Scottish Human Rights Commission has worked closely with police in Scotland and since its creation, with Police Scotland. Nevertheless there are still things that can be done to improve policing in Scotland.
breach of its obligations under international human rights and refugee law.
The UK Government must...The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the decision from the UK Supreme Court that the UK....
The Court has found the UK Government’s Rwanda plan does not safeguard the rights of asylum seekers...-refoulement’ in international law. It is grounded in a number of international conventions to which the UK is party, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Refugee Convention, the UN
into domestic law. These rights are particularly important in times of economic austerity, establishing... rights institution, SHRC will this Spring publish guidance on how best to realise human rights... to independence and a written constitution’ .
The Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission... to the debate on the place of human rights in Scotland's potential constitutional framework following the referendum.
“I particularly welcome the emphasis on economic, social and cultural rights
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