dialogue’, or review, of the UK was held on 24 May at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Should develop a National Action Plan on Human Rights.
Permit individual communications... as on the rights of the child.
Remove reservations or interpretive declarations to international human rights treaties.
Incorporate international human rights standards, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, into domestic law.
Comply with decisions of the European Court of Human
, the Commission is developing its 2024-28 Strategic Plan, taking a human rights based approach...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has launched an online survey asking people across Scotland... to human rights violations and monitor how human rights are actually being experienced by people... society, duty bearers and decision makers to protect and promote human rights in Scotland.
Anyone... Read version of the survey is also available.
Shaping your Human Rights Commission
The Commission
In September 2021 we submitted a joint statement on peaceful protest to the UN Human Rights Council along with the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
In September 2021 we wrote... of peaceful assembly and association in climate justice.
In September 2020 we published The Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) paper... of the Commission’s work on human rights in the context of COVID-19.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the human rights concerns raised in the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report on the Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill... programmes for prisoners are necessary to protect both public safety and the right of prisoners... that the Scottish Government revisit the Bill’s human rights impact statement, following our evidence..., the Commission submitted written evidence and oral evidence explaining the human rights implications
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the Scottish Government’s latest commitments... of an Inquiry Chair and the affirmation by the Cabinet Secretary that the Inquiry will take a human rights based approach. Such an approach will be vital to the Inquiry’s success and the Commission... accountability for progress in the years to come, as part of Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights.”
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