Submission: Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

Call for inputs to Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. Thursday 03 June 2021

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

animation

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

Commission writes to Cabinet Secretary for Justice on prison conditions during COVID-19

Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2020 were fully compliant with human rights obligations...The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to highlight... of cell, much more needs to be done to comply with human rights obligations and prison standards... available to enable adequate monitoring of prison conditions and their compliance with human rights.../news/breaches-of-human-rights-in-prisons-during-the-pandemic/ (ii) On 20 March 2020, the Council Monday 22 June 2020

Commission at United Nations in Geneva

Coordinating Committee (ICC) of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) at the United Nations in Geneva from 19 - 22 March 2012. This meeting overlapped with the 19th regular session of the Human Rights... for Human Rights and NHRIs from around the world highlighting Scotland’s approach to climate change... an Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment. More than 80 States co-sponsored the resolution... and effective in the protection and promotion of human rights. The Commission, which currently chairs Sunday 19 June 2016