The Commission welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s inquiry into how the National Outcomes shape Scottish Government policy aims and spending decisions, and in turn, how this drives delivery at national and local level.
Our model of ESC rights monitoring brings us closer to the communities to directly bear witness to their human rights concerns. We use this model to build a picture of economic social and cultural rights realisation across Scotland.
In each area, we meet with human rights defenders, community groups and duty bearers to inform our research. Our reports chart the state of ESC rights in that area - allowing us and others to track progress or deterioration of rights - and make specific
The Scottish Human Rights Commission and Nourish Scotland are today (Friday 22 November) launching...:
“Everyone in Scotland has the right to food – this is set out in international human rights laws... means in practice, and how we can make sure it is a reality for everyone.
“It’s important... and social rights, which also includes our ongoing contribution to the Scottish Government’s National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership.”
Pete Ritchie, Executive Director of Nourish Scotland, said
Climate change has been called the defining challenge for development of the 21st century and there is a widespread call for a human rights based approach to combatting its effects. A human rights approach to climate justice recognises and makes explicit the human face of climate change – in many cases, the human cost. As important and profound as the impact on the natural world may be – loss of species, loss of habitats, bleached coral reefs, shrinking polar ice and more – there are also
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