Research
We also carried out research to find out if the Coming Home plan was making a difference to people's lives. The research used human rights indicators to measure progress made in the realisation of the right to independent living.
We wrote a report which looked at that research, as well as the lived experience of people impacted by the policy through a Project Reference Group.
Our report found big gaps in the Coming Home plan's progress and clear failures to uphold human rights have
findings which cover both historic and continuing human rights issues. They focus on the forced assimilation of Scotland's Gypsy Travellers as well as issues relating to the rights to adequate
the accountability forum.
You can read the analysis of international human rightslaw relevant to historic... at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry's home page.
Human Rights Framework
In 2010, the Commission published the Human Rights Framework for Justice and Remedies for Historic Child Abuse. An easy read version... that promote human rights. An InterAction process was established to develop an Action Plan... Government’s 2013 consultation on proposals relating to the Civil Law of Damages on issues in personal
of the Scottish Human Rights Commission said: “We welcome the Murray report as well as the updated information... – for the public on the dramatic increase in the use of stop and search powers, and for officers as to how
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