The Scottish HumanRights Commission is launching a call for evidence to inform its monitoring... pinpoint the key priorities for our report.
We are particularly keen to understand:
What local... their rights under the Convention
The questionnaire
The questionnaire has seven questions in total... support services for them and their children: counselling, psychological support, shelters, national... or coerced abortion is covered.
LGBTI+ people’s wider rights, for example to same-sex marriage
The Scottish HumanRights Commission has welcomed the publication of the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee Stage 1 Report on the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill.
Following the Bill’s... potential impact on people’s humanrights. We recommended a series of actions including encouraging... has recognised that any new legislation should protect the rights of people accessing mental health... areas where the draft Bill could be strengthened to do this more effectively. We now look forward
The Scottish HumanRights Commission is briefing MSPs today on the need for a humanrights based... a humanrights based approach. Commenting in advance, she said:
“People’s humanrights have been impacted... to attend school or nursery all have humanrights implications. The fundamental right to life has been... to understand both why and how people’s humanrights were impacted. A public inquiry can shine... that any public inquiry will take a humanrights based approach. This will enable all of us to examine
Our State of the Nation reports aim to support the Scottish Parliament and other public bodies to understand and meet their obligations under humanrights law. At the national level, monitoring is essential to progress recommendations, decisions and judgments from accountability bodies that need to be addressed by the Scottish Government, Parliament and other public sector bodies.
We hope that these reports will also be useful to civil society, humanrights defenders and rights holders
An 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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