The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the publication of the final report from the Independent Forensic Mental Health Review.
The Commission welcomes the emphasis placed on taking a human rights based approach in the report, informed by the Panel Principles, listening to and highlighting the voices of people with lived experience of forensic mental health services.
The report... consideration of the human rights principles underpinning forensic mental health services and particularly
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the decision from the UK Supreme Court that the UK Government’s policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims processed is unlawful... torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The judgment is based on a principle known... to which the UK is party, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Refugee Convention... in clear breach of its obligations under international human rights and refugee law.
The UK Government
Housing Rights in Practice
Housing Rights in Practice was a project run by the Commission and others as part of SNAP - Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights. It ran from 2015 to 2019.
The project aimed to empower people to tackle substandard housing and living conditions by using human rights. It was delivered in partnership with Edinburgh Tenants Federation and Participation and the Practice of Rights.
Read a short overview of the project, including how it worked and what
Fact-finding visit
An essential part of this project was for the Commission to go to the Highlands and Islands and to hear first-hand from human rights defenders on the ground about the issues facing their communities.
In late 2023, Project Lead Dr Luis F Yanes and various members of the Commission team undertook a six week fact-finding trip to the Highlands and Islands, visiting more than twenty towns across six local authorities and meeting with 146 people, including:
human rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission is making Access to Justice a priority focus of its work... in Scotland face in accessing justice when their human rights are violated, as part of the first stage... of Human Rights Law and Social Justice at the University of Strathclyde.
Read the discussion paper... rights, with six key themes:
Improving people’s awareness of their human rights
Understanding... and affordable
Ensuring that responses to human rights complaints are effective, both
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