today.
Commenting on the judgment, Judith Robertson, Chair of the Scottish HumanRights Commission and Lynn Welsh, Head of Legal for the Equality and HumanRights Commission Scotland, said:
"We remain...Joint statement by the Equality and HumanRights Commission and the Scottish HumanRights... fails to comply with people's humanrights including their right to a private and family life. We... obligations under humanrights laws when it comes to providing this accommodation and that the UK Government
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The Commission is responsible for promoting and protecting humanrights of everyone in Scotland... and the culture of respect for humanrights in Scotland as a whole.
The Commission supports the recommendation...
The Commission has issued a statement on the humanrights concerns raised about Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
"The Scottish HumanRights Commission notes concerns over detention at Dungavel... organisations for humanrights organisations to be allowed entry to it.
The Commission’s
The Commission worked with the HumanRights Consortium Scotland to hold a series of workshops with civil society organisations and grassroots groups. This research was used to support the Commission's submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of humanrights in the UK.
Joint submission from the Equality and HumanRights Commission, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland HumanRights Commission and the Scottish HumanRights Commission, to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding the Draft General Comment on Article 12
The Scottish HumanRights Commission has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Humza Yousaf MSP, raising ongoing concerns about the management of COVID-19 in Scotland's prisons... the rights of people who live and work in Scotland's prisons.
"Given the prison population is now... and work in Scotland’s prisons.
Read the full letter, which has also been copied to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland.
Judith Robertson
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