a human rights based approach to the inspection of prisons. We provided advice in relation to the inspection standards and assisted HMIPS to undertake inspections to ensure that the human rights of prisoners are being respected. In 2018 HMIPS launched a new set of inspection standards with human rights... to ensure that prisoners’ human rights are upheld and that life in prison contributes..., which includes representation from the Scottish Human Rights Commission, alongside other agencies
We all need food. It's a human pleasure, it's a human necessity, it's a humanright.
Food is critical to each and every one us, both as individuals and as a society. It is an essential component of the humanright to an adequate standard of living, which allows each of us to live a life of dignity.
Watch our latest animation, produced in partnership with Nourish Scotland, on what the right to food means in Scotland and how we can make the right to food real for everyone.
A briefing sent to Members of the Scottish Parliament ahead of a debate to mark Human Rights Day on 10 December and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The briefing sets out the Commission's work, as Scotland's National Human Rights Institution, to promote and protect human rights in Scotland in accordance with the Paris Principles.
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