together to shape roadmap to realise human rights.
The Commission has undertaken research across the country to map gaps and good practices in the realisation of human rights in Scotland. During 2012... research will form a basis for the development of Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP), an ambitious project to advance the realisation of human rights in Scotland. SNAP will be an evidence based, negotiated action plan to address the gaps and build on best practices
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... 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... 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... for prisoners are necessary to protect both public safety and the right of prisoners... 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 of the bill
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..., inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The judgment is based on a principle known as ‘non... the UK is party, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Refugee Convention, the UN... breach of its obligations under international human rights and refugee law.
The UK Government must
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