Scotland’s second National Human Rights Action Plan (SNAP 2) was published on 30 March 2023. It’s vision is a Scotland where everyone can live with human dignity.
For more information, visit the SNAP website.
SNAP 2 builds on the achievements of SNAP 1, which ran from 2013 to 2017. It recommends 54 practical, achievable actions, framed by 8 key priorities that reflect the main issues facing people in Scotland and their rights that should be respected, protected and fulfilled.
The Commission
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act completed Stages 1, 2 and 3 and was passed on 1 April 2010. The Holyrood Act sits alongside Westminster legislation, the Coronavirus Act 2020, which also confers powers on Scottish Ministers.
The Commission has published a briefing on the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, with a view to informing any further relevant primary legislation, regulations, guidance and implementation.
Read the briefing in PDF.
Read the briefing in Word.
The Commission previously
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the human rights concerns raised in the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report on the Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill.
Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Commission, said:
“We are pleased to see the Committee has listened to the Commission’s evidence and echoed our concerns about the need for adequate prison... that it is inadequate in its current form.
Notes
1. Following the Bill’s introduction in August 2014
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