Please note: This document is superseded by our August 2025 statement in response to the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers.
” nationalhumanrights institutions will address the 28th session of the HumanRights Council...
The Scottish HumanRights Commission is an independent public body with a remit to promote and protect humanrights for everyone in Scotland.
The Scottish HumanRights Commission, Equality and HumanRights Commission and Northern Ireland HumanRights Commission are the UK’s three nationalhumanrights...The Scottish HumanRights Commission will today join the Equality and HumanRights Commission
to justice and humanrights in practice in the everyday lives of people in Scotland. "
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The Scottish HumanRights Commission is an independent public body with a statutory remit to promote and protect all humanrights for everyone in Scotland. The Commission is accredited as an ‘A Status’ nationalhumanrights institution within the UN system.
Part-time Commissioners are appointed...Two new part-time Commissioners have been appointed to the Scottish HumanRights Commission
Part 2 of the Easy Read version of the United Kingdom Independent Mechanism (UKIM) joint submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; to support a follow-up review of its 2016 inquiry into the UK. It provides a summary of developments related to the rights of disabled people in the UK from 2016 to the time of submission, in relation to the inquiry topics.
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