A critical next step for us is to bring the lessons learned from this project back to the communities affected. Between February and March 2025, we will travel back to the Highlands and Islands to share the findings of this report and hold sessions on ESC rights framework designed to empower human rights defenders. We will also offer to meet duty-bearers to provide technical advice and support on how to ensure they can take a human rights based approach to their policies and service delivery
that prevent disabled people from realising all of their human rights.
The UK has been a party... and ensure the human rights of disabled people. Although the Convention does not form part of Scotland's domestic law directly, it can be used to help interpret the rights that are contained in the Human Rights Act 1998.
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Part of the Commissions' role as Scotland's National Human Rights Institution is to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of international human rights treaties
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed new recommendations published by a United Nations Committee to help Scotland improve its human rights record in relation to torture, cruel, inhuman...:
maintaining the current level of human rights protection provided by the Human Rights Act...’ right to effective remedy and reparation.
The recommendations in full are at this link... under article 22 of the Convention to accept the right of individual petition, and raise awareness
Commissioner Shelagh McCall is to join a reference group to look at additional safeguards in Scotland's criminal justice system.
The group has been set up to consider additional safeguards and changes in practice that might be needed in Scotland’s criminal justice system when the corroboration requirement is abolished.
The Right Hon Lord Bonomy will lead the group, which will give consideration of the following areas:Whether a formal statutory test for sufficiency based upon supporting
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