The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes Police Scotland’s announcement that armed police officers will now only be deployed to firearms incidents or where there is a threat to life. However, we remain of the view that decisions of this kind are not simply an operational matter for Police Scotland. Changes to police policies and practices that increase the presence of lethal weapons... for Human Rights, to embed better protection of human rights within police structures and culture.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the historic debate on Climate Justice... - putting human rights at the centre of our response to climate change.
It also welcomes... human rights at the heart of a meaningful response to the increasingly urgent issue of climate... by the Parliament to focus on a human rights centred approach to address the legal, policy and practical... change has adverse implications for the full enjoyment of human rights, and international human
SNAP: Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights
12 December 201710am - 4pm
Doubletree Hilton, 36 Cambridge St, Glasgow G2 3HN
This National Participation Event will mark International Human Rights Day 2017 and the end of SNAP's first four years. It will bring together people and organisations from around Scotland to reflect on SNAP's successes and challenges, guide what comes next... with lived experience of challenges when it comes to accessing their human rights. It is also open
Experiences of the Adequate Standard of Living Reference Group during the first five weeks of lockdown.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission supports and works with a Reference Group of people with lived experience of poverty from across Scotland. The group are experts in poverty and in rights based approaches to tackling poverty.
With a diverse membership, the experiences of group members..., reflections and recommendations with the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee
The Commission welcomes the Mental Welfare Commission’s report into discharges of adults with incapacity from hospitals to care homes during the pandemic. The report shines a light on practices which may amount to a deprivation of liberty under the European Convention on Human Rights. Importantly... Inspectorate and the Scottish Government, to ensure that the rights of people in situations of vulnerability... rights. We look forward to the Scottish Government’s response to the Mental Welfare Commission’s report.
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