Accreditation

Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).  Find out more about the accreditation process...The Scottish Human Rights Commission is accredited as an ‘A Status’ NHRI within the United Nations (UN) system. This means the Commission can report directly to the UN on human rights issues and is the only Scottish organisation that can make direct contributions to the UN Human Rights Council.  Our full duties and powers are set out in the Scottish Commission for Human Rights Act 2006. The short Wednesday 04 March 2020

Workshop Series

of economic and social rights in Scotland. In the context of Brexit and ongoing potential for changes to the Human Rights Act, it was timely for Scotland to consider how human rights protections can be guaranteed for people in Scotland. This is particularly true for economic, social and cultural rights. At the Commission, we have long advocated that the best way to do this is for international human rights... of workshops aimed at broadening understanding and support for economic and social rights in Scotland Thursday 20 October 2016

Economic, social and cultural rights in the Highlands and Islands

Economic, social and cultural rights in the Highlands and Islands Monday 24 June 2024

UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty

a range of human rights including the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, housing and the right to earn a decent living. Poverty is both a result and a cause of human rights violations in Scotland and in the rest of the world. Last year on this day our Head of Strategy & Legal Duncan Wilson gave a talk to the Glasgow Human Rights Network at Glasgow City Chambers. Duncan's talk was entitiled “Poverty is a Human Rights Violation”. Read the talk in Word format. Wednesday 15 June 2016

Referendum franchise debate - Scottish Parliament

the values placed in Scotland on human rights, social justice and the effective rehabilitation... Parliament ahead of the debate. _ Dear Member of the Scottish Parliament, The Scottish Human Rights... of the sentence. Although previous judgments by the European Court of Human Rights ruled against a blanket ban on the right of prisoners to vote in national elections and have not yet addressed..., Scottish Human Rights Commission Wednesday 15 June 2016