The Commission works on a wide range of humanrights issues that affect people in Scotland. These pages give more details of projects that the Commission has worked on across different areas.
These projects give insight into the realisation of rights in practice in Scottish society.
The Scottish HumanRights Commission welcomes the Inquiry Report of the Health and Sport Committee into the Regulation of Care for Older People and the Scottish Government’s response.
The Committee....
Of particular importance to the Commission is that the Committee recognises that a humanrights framework is essential for the delivery of quality care and recommends that a review of the National Care Standards embeds equality and humanrights for service users.
Read the submission which gives observations
Our model of ESC rights monitoring brings us closer to the communities to directly bear witness to their humanrights concerns. We use this model to build a picture of economic social and cultural rights realisation across Scotland.
In each area, we meet with humanrights defenders, community groups and duty bearers to inform our research. Our reports chart the state of ESC rights in that area - allowing us and others to track progress or deterioration of rights - and make specific
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