monitoring. It demonstrates how we are building our own evidence base of rights denials for rights holders...The Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission Professor Angela O'Hagan and Executive Director..., Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on the Commission’s Annual Report 2023-24.
The Annual... statutory duty to promote human rights, through a renewed focus on monitoring and reporting to deliver improved accountability for human rights in Scotland.
It highlights our activities to engage with people
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 also met duty-bearers and provided technical advice and support on how to ensure they can take a human rights based approach to their policies and service delivery.
Holding duty bearers accountable
As Scotland's National Human Rights Institution, we aim... rights in the Highlands and Islands, ensuring that no one in Scotland is left behind.
Returning
the opportunity to significantly improve this legislation in human rights terms, we look forward to serious consideration being given to the incorporation of international human rights in Scots law going... Robertson, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission said:
“It is disappointing that parliamentarians... which must have regard to human rights, an accountability gap still exists. The amendment proposed
, is a national asset that should serve the public interest - By Professor Alan Miller
Human rights... plans allegedly costing taxpayers £600 million in compensation bills.
Nor are human rights a "trump... and polarises the debate.
In fact human rights underpin the public interest, not any vested interest... land and people.
Secondly, internationally agreed human rights provide the framework and guidance... with the international human rights framework.
This framework includes but goes beyond the European Convention Human
to understand both why and how people’s human rights were impacted. A public inquiry can shine a light...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement that work... Government:
Scottish Ministers expect a person-centred, human rights based approach to ensure that every... Human Rights Commission, briefed MSPs last week on why human rights need to be embedded... move into recovery.
“People’s human rights, including the right to life, have been impacted
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