The Commission has written to all Members of the Scottish Parliament on the topic of humanrights based budgeting, highlighting recommendations made in its recent report on the Open Budget Survey for Scotland.
A humanrights-based examination of Scotland’s progress in ending institutions, from Coming Home to universal practice: Report by Professor Jo Ferrie & Dr Paul Pearson
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The Scottish HumanRights Commission has noted the decision by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of HumanRights today in Scoppola v. Italy (no 3).
The UK was required to introduce legislation... blanket ban on prisoner voting breaches the European Convention on HumanRights. The judgment does....”
The full judgment from the European Court of HumanRights is online here..... This case followed Hirst (no 2) v UK) where the Court initially called on the UK to take action
similar disparities emerge despite its distinct humanrights framework.
Scotland’s New Scots Strategy... “good global citizen,” Scotland must ensure its humanrights framework does not disadvantage anyone... and Scotland to align their practices with universal humanrights principles. As this project... Scotland as Good Global Citizen', Journal of humanrights practice, 16(3), pp. 915–933.
Scottish Government... blog posts written by PhD researchers and SHRC’s LLM HumanRights Dissertation Placement students
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