The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the historic debate on Climate Justice... - putting human rights at the centre of our response to climate change.
It also welcomes... human rights at the heart of a meaningful response to the increasingly urgent issue of climate... by the Parliament to focus on a human rights centred approach to address the legal, policy and practical... change has adverse implications for the full enjoyment of human rights, and international human
SNAP: Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights
12 December 201710am - 4pm
Doubletree Hilton, 36 Cambridge St, Glasgow G2 3HN
This National Participation Event will mark International Human Rights Day 2017 and the end of SNAP's first four years. It will bring together people and organisations from around Scotland to reflect on SNAP's successes and challenges, guide what comes next... with lived experience of challenges when it comes to accessing their human rights. It is also open
awareness of Scottish human rights issues with a wide, global audience.
This week, a small team from the Commission is at the United Nations in Geneva to raise some of our key concerns about human... (UPR) Pre-Sessions” – a chance to talk about Scotland’s performance on human rights with partners from around the world, including other National Human Rights Institutions like us (NHRIs) and non... opportunity to strengthen our ties with the international human rights community and talk to them
The Commission works on a wide range of human rights issues that affect people in Scotland. These pages give more details of projects that the Commission has worked on across different areas.
These projects give insight into the realisation of rights in practice in Scottish society.
The UK Independent Mechanism (UKIM) under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has written to the UK Government calling on it to take action to tackle the violations of disabled people's human rights arising from changes to the welfare system, highlighted in a recent... for Disabled People, Health and Work.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human... commitment to put respect for human dignity at the heart of its approach to social security
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