Members of the Leadership Panel for Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights have written to the Smith Commission, drawing attention to human rights considerations in the context of devolving further powers.
Dear Lord Smith
Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP) is a roadmap towards a Scotland where everyone can live with human dignity – where all internationally recognised human rights are realised in people’s lives.
SNAP, launched on Dec 10 2013 with broad cross-party
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes new recommendations made by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Following our submission in July, the Committee has now published a list of issues in relation to their examination of the UK. Alongside our...).
The report asks about mental health services for women in prison and measures to combat gender based... and ownership of land to promote decision-making.
Judith Robertson, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights
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would also co-chair the review, to ensure that an independent human rights-based perspective... human rights legal standards, at both the European and international levels and work across the other... on a revised Terms of Reference (ToR) which embed human rights principles and analysis into the review
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