This project aims to check whether the Coming Home plan is making a difference to disabled people’s human rights. We used human rights measurement, which is a way of checking how well human rights are happening in real life. It takes the ideas of human rights and turns them into things we can count or look for. It shows what is being done and what is not being done.
We did this in two ways:
The Commission has published a BSL Plan for 2018-2024 setting out how it will promote the use of BSL in its work. This is also available in BSL on Youtube.
A joint letter from the SHRC and EHRC Scotland to the Convener of the Scottish Parliament's Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. It highlights the publication of the UKIM report assessing the human rights of disabled people in the UK.
United Nations Open-ended Working Group on strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons (General Assembly resolution 65/182) - conference paper by Kavita Chetty, Legal Officer, Scottish Human Rights Commission
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