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

Health and social care

Officer 16 June 2020 Read our statement on human rights in care homes 14 July 2020 Briefing: Care homes and human rights during COVID-19 sets out the human rights framework as it applies to the issues that have arisen in the care homes News article: Briefing: Care homes and human rights during... Advisory Group 6 October 2020 Report into human rights affected by changes to social care: COVID-19, Social Care and Human Rights: Impact Monitoring Report Easy read version (PDF): How has Tuesday 09 May 2023

Additional publications and resources

Briefing: Climate Justice and Human Rights in Scotland (June 2014) ... Commission welcomes UN Human Rights Council recognition of the right to a healthy Environment 08 Oct 2021 Peaceful protest (2021) - joint written statement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission Commission welcomes green recovery call for human rights based approach 17 Nov 2020... Transition Commission (by ASL Reference Group) July 2020 Briefing: Human Rights Tuesday 02 November 2021

Local advice and advocacy services

In 2024, we jointly commissioned research with the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) to map the landscape in order to gain a better understanding of the availability, distribution, and focus of services offering human rights-related advice and advocacy in Scotland. We used our research findings to create the two functional maps below which chart advice and advocacy services across a range of human rights-related issues. Thursday 08 January 2026