Why we are spotlighting this issue
In Scotland, our human rights are protected by international and domestic law. These laws should help to prevent breaches of our rights and provide us with routes to access justice when things go wrong.
Yet too often, people in Scotland are experiencing human rights denials and facing barriers that prevent them from accessing justice.
The journey to access justice for human rights breaches can be long, complicated, and expensive, requiring rights holders
This work has been informed by the commitment in our Strategic Plan 2024-28 to hold public bodies to account where human rights are not upheld, and help them to do better.
State of the Nation reports aim to support the Scottish Parliament and other public bodies to understand and meet their obligations under human rights law. At the national level, monitoring is essential to progress... to civil society, human rights defenders and rights holders in Scotland.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has today laid its fourth Strategic Plan at the Scottish Parliament, covering the period 2020-2024.
The Plan sets out four strategic priorities for the Commission's work over the next four years. These are:
Progressing understanding and strengthening legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights
Strengthening accountability for meeting human rights obligations
Building wider ownership of human rights
Advancing best practice locally and sharing
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the apology from the Scottish Government to members of the Gypsy Traveller Community for the 'Tinker Experiment'. Victims of the experiment, alongside organisations like RAJPOT, have long campaigned for recognition of this issue and an apology is an important first step towards redress for historic and ongoing injustice.
We will publish our human... to engage with victims of the experiment and human rights defenders on this topic. Once completed we
on the Bill is clear. We believe the suggested reforms support best practice in human rights.
As Scotland’s National Human Rights Institution, the Commission promotes and protects everyone’s human
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