We all have the right to privacy and to go about our lives free from unnecessary interference from the police. Mobile phone browsing technology - or cyber kiosks - has the potential to be highly intrusive of this right. The Scottish Human Rights Commission therefore wants to see clear rules and safeguards in place to regulate the use of this technology, and to guarantee robust and independent oversight.
The European Court of Human Rights has established that it is the state's responsibility
The Scottish Parliament is now recruiting for two new part time members of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
Could you be the right person?
The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body (SPCB... collaboratively and who can demonstrate a commitment to human rights.
The SPCB is particularly interested in hearing from people with personal lived experience of human rights issues, disabled people, people from... four days a month on Commission business.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission’s role is to promote
and appropriate remedies. The inclusive, human rights based approach that we have facilitated with CELCIS... considered through the InterAction.
The process has been constructed based on human rights principles outlined in SHRC’s Human Rights Framework for Acknowledgement and Accountability for Historic Child...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has today welcomed Scottish Government commitments to improve... is a serious breach of human rights with lasting and significant harmful consequences. The commitments made
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
and flourish.
"We also need to reach out. I am here because I am chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and I was thinking about what human rights teaches us in these circumstances. Clearly we all have the right to life and Jo's life has been denied her and her family in the name of a bleak and dangerous cause.
"We all also have the right to freedom from discrimination, freedom from violence, freedom from fear and freedom from want. We have the right to an adequate standard of living
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