Under our founding legislation, the Scottish Commission for Human Rights Act 2006, the Commission has a general duty to promote and encourage best practice for human rights.
An important part of this duty is monitoring how human rights are being experienced in Scotland. Independent monitoring can... independent conclusions and recommendations
Traditionally, the Commission has done most of its human... the impact of specific treaties and reporting our findings to international human rights bodies like
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to the Scottish Government to reiterate the importance of economic, social and cultural rights in relation to the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
Read the letter in Word format.
UPDATE: 11 February
Read the response from Scottish Government Ministers in PDF format, which the Commission welcomes for its express commitment to the progressive realisation of all international human rights.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has lodged a report with the United Nations (UN) highlighting a series of issues affecting children’s human rights in Scotland. The report has been submitted... quality housing and inadequate access to mental health services on children’s human rights. Emerging... and should do better for these children, whose human rights should be respected and upheld... in June.
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The Scottish Human Rights Commission is an independent public body with a remit
The Commission would like to invite people with experience of poverty to join a Reference Group on Poverty and Adequate Standard of Living. The group will help inform our work to implement Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights, and our work more generally.
We would like to support people who experience poverty to influence decisions which affect them, using human rights as a tool for change.
Read the Call for Participants in Word format.
The Commission has issued a statement on the human rights concerns raised about Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
"The Scottish Human Rights Commission notes concerns over detention at Dungavel... organisations for human rights organisations to be allowed entry to it.
The Commission’s... to human rights concerns. We are calling for an urgent review of the practice of indeterminate detention.
The Commission is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights of everyone in Scotland
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