HRBW Past Work

.  A letter to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee at the Scottish Parliament on its... rights budgeting is a powerful tool for change The Time to Introduce Human Rights Budgeting for Scottish Councils is Now We Need Human Rights Based Taxation to Help Scotland Build Back Making Rights Real: the Role of Human Rights in the Public Budget   Working groups and external engagement Since the Commission's EU funded project into human rights budgeting in 2018, a programme of ongoing work has Tuesday 03 September 2019

Call for amendment to Health & Social Care Bill

There are three national human rights institutions in the UK – the Scottish Human Rights Commission...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has today called for an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill which would clarify the law around the Human Rights Act and publicly funded home care and healthcare services. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 clarified that the Human Rights Act extends... as to the application of the Human Rights Act to home care or private healthcare services. Essentially the law Sunday 19 June 2016

Commission reports to Council of Europe on European Social Charter

Rights in Scotland” in 2012 and led to the development of Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP). This database has been further developed and updated through: a national...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has submitted a report to the Council of Europe on the UK’s... submission here (PDF). This extensive report provides a detailed analysis of key human rights issues... monitoring report focused on COVID-19, Social Care and Human Rights and our series of COVID-19 focused Tuesday 27 July 2021

Time for action to bring the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law

Time for action to bring the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law Tuesday 27 June 2023

Commission statement on First Minister's speech to Chinese Friendship Association

– Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights – a progressive approach to making human rights..., Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission said: “The Commission welcomes... equality is a fundamental question of realising universal human rights. “The First Minister rightly highlights that realising human rights is about giving everyone an equal chance to live in dignity... is different but international human rights, allied with the new Sustainable Development Goals, give Monday 13 June 2016