This project is a step toward filling the gaps in humanrights data and making sure that rural and island communities have their economic, social, and cultural rights met.
We aimed to bear witness... awareness of humanrights issues in these areas with decision-makers and to highlight the need for a geographically-specific approach to Scottish law and policy.
This project also piloted our new humanrights monitoring model which brings us closer to local communities and their humanrights concerns. See
A new report published today by the Scottish HumanRights Commission (SHRC) reveals the traumatic... to life) of the European Convention on HumanRights to investigate deaths in custody effectively... of the Scottish HumanRights Commission, said:
“Scotland will only improve its system of investigating... and is a grave humanrights concern.”
“We simply cannot continue in this seemingly endless cycle of new....
Notes to editors
In June 2024, the SHRC published a report, Review, Recommend, Repeat, highlighting
A new report to the United Nations by the Scottish HumanRights Commission details concerns about... on improving its humanrights record in relation to the prevention of inhuman or degrading treatment.
Chair... these rights in international humanrights law, and sets the standards that Scotland should... humanrights.
Prisons:
Several prisons in Scotland are understaffed and some prisoners are locked up... and HumanRights Commission (EHRC), in their own submission to the UN. There is one immigration detention
Letter to Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service warning of potential humanrights violations in the policing of peaceful protestors.
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