The Scottish Human Rights Commission has submitted a report to the UN, identifying areas where more could be done to ensure people's human rights are respected and protected in line with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
The Commission has submitted evidence to the Human Rights Inquiry by the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
The Commission provided its views on the proposed repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its replacement with a British Bill of Rights.
Letter from our Chair to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, a year on from the publication of our spotlight report "Tick Tock..." A human rights assessment of progress from institutionalisation to independent living in Scotland.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission will today join the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in calling for greater protection of human rights for people... to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s recent inquiry into the issue, the UK’s three “A status” national human rights institutions will address the 28th session of the Human Rights Council... to “protect the human rights of people in detention who have mental health conditions” by providing
This project aims to check whether the Coming Home plan is making a difference to disabled people’s human rights. We used human rights measurement, which is a way of checking how well human rights are happening in real life. It takes the ideas of human rights and turns them into things we can count or look for. It shows what is being done and what is not being done.
We did this in two ways:
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