The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (link to Home page in English) is a sister National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) to the SHRC, and is recognised by the United Nations as an "A status" NHRI. The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights is part of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions.
The PICHR have made the following statement... High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the conflict see this page.
19 November 2012
The Palestinian
Nations specialist on human rights is visiting Scotland this week to highlight ways to strengthen... to a meeting of civil society organisations how Scotland could do more to improve its human rights... relies on civil society and national human rights institutions to provide them with information... November and is being organised by the Scottish Human Rights Commission. The event is being carried out as part of the Commission's work on monitoring and reporting on international human rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission strongly welcomes the full protection of the rights... significantly strengthens the human rights of children and young people. It puts children’s rights... of all the international human rights treaties in the world. The preamble to the treaty sets out... in decisions that affect them.
“This is the first time that international human rights laws have been given.... The legislation also paves the way for the further incorporation of other international human rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is deeply concerned about the impact of announcements... will have a direct effect on the human rights of those disabled people in Scotland who are unable..., which holds governments around the world to account for their record on human rights, warned...:
“With these announcements, the UK Government is not only disregarding the expert findings and recommendations of human... obligations under international human rights law, particularly its duty to progressively realise the rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the debate today (2 February 2012) in the Scottish Parliament on Prison Visiting Committees.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission is the National Human Rights Institution for Scotland and is part of the National Preventative Mechanism (NPM) under... service for prisons, but considers that this should run alongside the human rights protections... to improve the protection of human rights for all of the people in Scotland.
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