Case Studies: Scotland's National Action Plan for HumanRights
These case studies show how different organisations have put a humanrights based approach into practice in their work. They were produced by the Commission with support from various partners, as part of Scotland's National Action Plan for HumanRights.
You can download more detail about these case studies below.
concerns about the right to life.”
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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’ nationalhumanrightsinstitution within the UN system...The Scottish HumanRights Commission has written to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee..., said:
“Humanrights law establishes that everyone has the right to life. In practice, this means
The Commission has made a response to the Scottish Government consultation on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000: Revised Codes of Practice for Cover Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources.
A PDF version of our joint report with the National Preventive Mechanism, "Review...recommend...repeat: An assessment of where humanrights have stalled in places of detention".
This report is part of our Spotlight Project on absolute rights in places of detention.
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