The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published its submission to the United Nation's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the sixth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Scottish Human Rights Commission comments on the follow-up to the Concluding Observations on the combined 24th to 26th periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to the Scottish Government to reiterate the importance of economic, social and cultural rights in relation to the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
Read the letter in Word format.
UPDATE: 11 February
Read the response from Scottish Government Ministers in PDF format, which the Commission welcomes for its express commitment to the progressive realisation of all international human rights.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has lodged a report with the United Nations (UN) highlighting a series of issues affecting children’s human rights in Scotland. The report has been submitted... quality housing and inadequate access to mental health services on children’s human rights. Emerging... and should do better for these children, whose human rights should be respected and upheld... in June.
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The Scottish Human Rights Commission is an independent public body with a remit
The Commission would like to invite people with experience of poverty to join a Reference Group on Poverty and Adequate Standard of Living. The group will help inform our work to implement Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights, and our work more generally.
We would like to support people who experience poverty to influence decisions which affect them, using human rights as a tool for change.
Read the Call for Participants in Word format.
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