The Scottish Human Rights Commission is launching a call for evidence to inform its monitoring... themes:
Preventing domestic and gender-based violence – this includes the presence of measures aiming... collection (Chapter 3)
Protecting women and girls who experience domestic and gender-based violence... victims of domestic or gender-based violence, although the Article 2 encourages extension of relevant... right to abortion, although forced or coerced abortion is covered.
LGBTI+ people’s wider rights
, such as the right to social security, right to food, right to the highest attainable standard of health and right to housing.
The workshops were designed for a broad audience of rights holders, civil... to the Human Rights Act, it was timely for Scotland to consider how human rights protections can.... At the Commission, we have long advocated that the best way to do this is for international human... to have the powers they need to address alleged breaches of these international human rights standards
The Commission has developed a range of practical resources for people and organisations working in both civil society organisations and the public sector.
These are designed to improve understanding and awareness of how to put human rights into practice.
We have worked with a range of other... for their help.
Our Self-Assessment Toolkit is a good starting point for understanding what a human rights based approach means in practice for your organisation.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission have published the Annual Report for 2011 / 2012. The Annual Report has been lodged at the Scottish Parliament today.
Read the Annual Report in PDF format.
Read the Annual Report in Word format.
The Annual Report contains details on the Commission's performance and work in 2011//2012. Including information on putting a Human Rights Based Approach into practice, emerging issues and engagement and the Commission's international role.
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Human rights in this area will be further explored in our Access to Justice Spotlight Project, which will look at the human rights complaints process for rights holders in places of detention.
Additionally, human rights in places of detention were identified as a key concern
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