We will use our findings to push for urgent action on outstanding recommendations where progress is too slow. We will share this report with a range of bodies to allow progress to be assessed and tracked over time.
This includes:
The Criminal Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament
Audit Scotland
The European Committee on the Prevention of Torture
The Human Rights Committee
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Together with the National Preventive Mechanism, we will also
We have been particularly concerned about the lack of available data for monitoring in the Highlands and Islands, when compared with the rest of Scotland. By listening to the lived experiences of residents and organisations in the area, as well as through our human rights treaty monitoring work, we identified specific issues affecting rural and island communities, such as:
Slow and inaccessible health care services
Lack of affordable housing
Limited access to sufficient and nutritious
On Tuesday 9 October Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, delivered a lecture From Climate Change to Climate Justice as part of the Our Changing World series, hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
For more videos of previous lectures and details of upcoming events as part of the series please visit the Our Changing World website.
Find out more about Climate Justice on our pages.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (the Commission) invites interested parties to submit an application to undertake a short piece of research to inform the Commission’s submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women as part of the periodic review of the United Kingdom. The Commission intends to submit shadow reports for both the pre-session, taking place in July 2018, and for the full review which will be held in February 2019. The research
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