Under our founding legislation, the Scottish Commission for Human Rights Act 2006, the SHRC has a general duty to promote and encourage best practice for human rights.
An important part of this duty is monitoring how human rights are being experienced in Scotland. Independent monitoring can... independent conclusions and recommendations
Traditionally, the SHRC has done most of its human rights... of specific treaties and reporting our findings to international human rights bodies like the United
Our State of the Nation reports aim to support the Scottish Parliament and other public bodies to understand and meet their obligations under human rights law. At the national level, monitoring is essential to progress recommendations, decisions and judgments from accountability bodies that need to be addressed by the Scottish Government, Parliament and other public sector bodies.
We hope that these reports will also be useful to civil society, human rights defenders and rights holders
In 2024, we jointly commissioned research with the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) to map the landscape in order to gain a better understanding of the availability, distribution, and focus of services offering human rights-related advice and advocacy in Scotland.
We used our research findings to create the two functional maps below which chart advice and advocacy services across a range of human rights-related issues.
of the independent Human Rights and Equality Commissions across the UK. These are the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Northern Ireland Equality Commission, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
This report has been informed by consultation with disabled... the Convention once they begin their first ever review of the UK's record on the human rights
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland on Saturday 19 July, Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, said that debates about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights are "on the wrong side of history".
Describing recent proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights as a "Westminster bubble debate", Professor Miller said, "The European Court of Human Rights is now providing judgments which
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