A supplementary report prepared for the Commission by the Scottish Independent Living Coalition (SILC), to inform the UKIM submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities follow-up review of its 2016 inquiry into the UK.
As Scotland’s NationalHumanRightsInstitution, the Commission protects the humanrights... of the HumanRights Act and threaten to put the UK in breach of the European Convention on HumanRights... international reputation is predicated on respect for humanrights, freedom and democracy... the functioning and credibility of the international humanrights system.
While immigration policy is reserved... join humanrights campaigners across Scotland in urging the Scottish Government, Members
In 2024, we jointly commissioned research with the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) to map the landscape in order to gain a better understanding of the availability, distribution, and focus of services offering humanrights-related advice and advocacy in Scotland.
We used our research findings to create the two functional maps below which chart advice and advocacy services across a range of humanrights-related issues.
The Commission's Research Officer, Alison Hosie, has recently written a blog for the Health and HumanRights Journal. Read her blog post on Contributing to the Accountability Web: The Role of NationalHumanRights Institutions and Sustainable Development Goals.
The Scottish HumanRights Commission welcomes the debate today (2 February 2012) in the Scottish Parliament on Prison Visiting Committees.
The Scottish HumanRights Commission is the NationalHumanRightsInstitution for Scotland and is part of the National Preventative Mechanism (NPM) under... service for prisons, but considers that this should run alongside the humanrights protections... the protection of humanrights for all of the people in Scotland.
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