The Scottish Human Rights Commission’s role is to promote widespread awareness, understanding of, and respect for human rights.
The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body (SBCB) is seeking is seeking to appoint a part-time Commission member who must be able to spend 30 days per year on commission... office on 1 September 2017.
The Commission is based in Edinburgh.
For an application pack including full... with the Equality Act 2010 and no applicant will receive less favourable treatment based
Society Foundations. The OSF takes a human rights based approach across its advocacy and grant making... and human rights at local and global levels.
The Commission is extremely grateful to Duncan for his very significant contribution to promoting and protecting human rights in Scotland during his time with us... Scottish society to delivering Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Human Rights, an ambitious roadmap to a Scotland where everyone can live with human dignity. Duncan leaves us with our
Care About Rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has developed training and awareness raising resources relating to the care and support of older people.
We all have the right to enjoy and contribute to cultural life. However, people don’t always have equal access to this right.
The Scottish Gypsy Traveller community told us they were victims of the ‘Tinker Experiment’, where members of the community were forcibly settled into static accommodation sites from the 1940s onwards. This scheme was supported by the Government, Church of Scotland and local authorities.
Members of the community were forced to live in culturally unsuitable accommodation
Participating in the UPR
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is an international process that monitors human rights across all UN member states, including the UK as a way of holding countries to account for their compliance with international human rights laws and standards.
The UPR is a key opportunity for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to report directly to the United Nations Human Rights Council on issues that they are concerned about.
Find out more about the UPR
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