The Commission invites interested parties to submit applications for a small scale research project to support the human rights component of NHS Health Scotland’s Health Inequalities Impact Assessment work.
The purpose of the work is to produce an output of around six case studies, or practice examples, which asses the human rights impacts of selected policies, legislation or strategies and develop supporting guidance where necessary.
Read the Tender Document and apply.
The deadline
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed progress on the United Nations Convention... step towards ensuring children’s human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled across Scotland. It also paves the way for the incorporation of all other international human rights into Scotland’s... lack of clarity in this area under the Human Rights Act 1998. We are therefore pleased... with developments in international human rights law. The Commission is pleased that recommendations and General
of the independent Human Rights and Equality Commissions across the UK. These are the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Northern Ireland Equality Commission, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
This report has been informed by consultation with disabled... the Convention once they begin their first ever review of the UK's record on the human rights
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland on Saturday 19 July, Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, said that debates about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights are "on the wrong side of history".
Describing recent proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights as a "Westminster bubble debate", Professor Miller said, "The European Court of Human Rights is now providing judgments which
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published its second Strategic Plan, which sets out five Strategic Priorities for 2012 - 2016.
The second Strategic Plan, which has been laid... their rights through promoting greater awareness and respect for human rights.
Supporting the implementation of human rights in practice.
Improving human rights protection in Scotland through influencing law and policy.
Progressing the realisation of human rights of people in Scotland and beyond through
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