international human rightslaw, particularly its duty to progressively realise the rights to social...The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is deeply concerned about the impact of announcements... will have a direct effect on the human rights of those disabled people in Scotland who are unable....
Severe economic hardship
Earlier this month, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which holds governments around the world to account for their record on human rights, warned
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the Scottish Government’s response to today’s... of the Commission, said:
“Biometric data has important implications for privacy and other human rights such as the presumption of innocence. This is a timely moment as it allows Scottish law and policy in this area to develop in a human rights-based, ethical manner which gives appropriate weight to considerations of public protection on the one hand, and privacy and other relevant human rights
of the Child, into domestic law.
Comply with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights... dialogue’, or review, of the UK was held on 24 May at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Should develop a National Action Plan on Human Rights.
Permit individual communications to UN mechanisms on civil and political and economic, social and cultural rights as well as on the rights of the child.
Remove reservations or interpretive declarations to international human rights treaties
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has achieved the top grade of accreditation, for the second time, from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions. This will enable Scotland’s voice to be heard at the highest levels in the international human rights system.
Known as “A Status” accreditation, the decision was made by a committee of national human rights institutions from around
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes today’s announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice that the Scottish Government will begin to use its emergency powers to release people from... of Torture has set out the human rights principles that should be applied to people in prison and other.... Human rights impact assessments can play a key role in ensuring everyone’s rights are considered and adequately protected.”
The Commission recognises and supports the legislation previously passed
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