This project aims to check whether the Coming Home plan is making a difference to disabled people’s human rights. We are using 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 have done this in two ways:
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... states to “protect the human rights of people in detention who have mental health conditions
Professor Alan Miller said: "The Scottish Human Rights Commission pays tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela and will continue to draw inspiration from his commitment to universal human rights.
"Mandela epitomised the human spirit - transcending race, class and nationality - and brought out... with all of our sister national human rights institutions around the world, including our close colleagues in the South African Human Rights Commission, to carry on his legacy and strive to build a world
In the UK, human rights are protected by international human rights treaties - such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - and in domestic law - such as the Human Rights Act 1998.
However, some groups of people face more barriers to having their rights met than..., additional human rights treaties have been created to address these barriers. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects the human rights of disabled people.
Scotland is signed up to many international human rights obligations, set out in laws, treaties and conventions, as part of the United Kingdom. As an accredited ‘A Status’ national human rights institution, the Commission helps to monitor the impact of international human rights treaties... speaking rights at the UN Human Rights Council, which is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.
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