Commission responds to CRC incorporation consultation

on Human Rights Leadership including new human rights legislation for Scotland." ENDS... on incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into domestic law in Scotland... Scotland.  By setting out the rights of children and young people comprehensively in one place in Scots..., in particular economic, social and cultural and environmental rights, incorporated into law in Scotland to build towards this ambition. "We look forward to the work of the new National Taskforce on Human Friday 30 August 2019

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We all need food. It's a human pleasure, it's a human necessity, it's a human right.  Food is critical to each and every one us, both as individuals and as a society.  It is an essential component of the human right to an adequate standard of living, which allows each of us to live a life of dignity.   Watch our latest animation, produced in partnership with Nourish Scotland, on what the right to food means in Scotland and how we can make the right to food real for everyone.  Wednesday 20 November 2019

Joint statement welcoming intention to retain the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Scots law

Joint statement welcoming intention to retain the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Scots law Wednesday 21 March 2018

Commission sets out concerns over plans to remove EU laws

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has set out its concerns over the UK Government’s proposals to remove EU legislation, a move which could have a damaging impact on human rights in Scotland... What does this mean? The report sets out the human rights considerations for Scotland and states... threatens to undermine the human rights protections available to people in Scotland. EU laws help to protect... Parliament the Commission highlights impacts to a range of human rights if the proposed REUL Bill Thursday 26 January 2023

Commission speaks to BBC and RT UK about stop and search

Scotland yesterday and this morning. This is something that the Scottish Human Rights Commission has been calling for with Police Scotland and the [Scottish] Government for some months now through Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights. So we welcome that this practice is now going... and media and the Justice Committee and the [Scottish] Human Rights Commission and others who have...The Commission spoke to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland and RT UK on 6 February about non-statutory Monday 13 June 2016