The Scottish Human Rights Commission’s role is to promote widespread awareness, understanding of, and respect for human rights.
The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body (SBCB) is seeking is seeking to appoint a part-time Commission member who must be able to spend 30 days per year on commission business.
You will be a team player with excellent networking and interpersonal skills with the ability... on a protected characteristic.
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
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.
Read the Draft...:
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 United Kingdom Independent Mechanism has published its report on how well the UN Disability... of the independent Human Rights and Equality Commissions across the UK. These are the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Northern Ireland Equality Commission, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
This report has been informed by consultation with disabled... the Convention once they begin their first ever review of the UK's record on the human rights
Next for Human Rights? Setting the Research Agenda”
Call for Abstracts is now live for this year’s Human Rights Knowledge Exchange in partnership with the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS).
The Scottish Human Rights Commission will be hosting an event... in human rights, policy and practice. You don’t have to be a human rights scholar to apply – if your... society colleagues, and the SHRC.
How to apply: Submit a 300-word abstract by 17 November 2025
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