The Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission Professor Angela O'Hagan and Executive Director..., Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on the Commission’s Annual Report 2023-24.
The Annual... statutory duty to promote human rights, through a renewed focus on monitoring and reporting to deliver improved accountability for human rights in Scotland.
It highlights our activities to engage with people’s lived experiences of human rights, including a series of spotlight projects focused on monitoring
A briefing to mark Human Rights Day on 10 December and the 30th anniversary of the Paris Principles being endorsed by the United Nations (UN). The Principles set out the standards for independent, effective and robust National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs). As Scotland’s NHRI, the Scottish Human Rights Commission works to make these systems effective and meaningful in Scotland.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has today hosted a crucial session of European National Human Rights Institutions in Belfast. The Scottish Human Rights Commission currently chairs... Nations High Commissioner's Report on the Strengthening of the Human Rights Treaty Body System. Senior... of a country's human rights situation and sets targeted recommendations for improvement. It also raises awareness of human rights across government departments and galvanizes civil society. Human rights
of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
The Commission warmly welcomes Professor O’Hagan who will take up...’Hagan brings invaluable experience, expertise and human rights leadership to this role. She will join... 2024-28.
"Our priorities for the next four years highlight our role as Scotland’s human rights... accountability for human rights across Scotland.
“We very much look forward to working with Angela O’Hagan to promote and protect everyone’s human rights in Scotland.”
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The Scottish Human Rights Commission has commented on today’s Queen’s Speech announcement about.... And yet again, the point of any such Bill remains thoroughly unclear. The Human Rights Act already does... Convention on Human Rights.
“There is no appetite in Scotland for regressive changes to our human rights laws... all human rights in practice, in people’s everyday lives. Continued threats to the Human Rights Act... our human rights laws and to better guarantee people’s rights in practice.”
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