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The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the human rights concerns raised in the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee’s Stage 1 report on the Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill. Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the Commission, said: “We are pleased to see the Committee has... Government revisit the Bill’s human rights impact statement, following our evidence..., the Commission submitted written evidence and oral evidence explaining the human rights implications of the bill

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Human Rights Impact Assessment Equality and human rights impact assessments (EQHRIAs) are an important mechanism for enabling equality and human rights considerations to be embedded into the policies.... In an environment where there are financial constraints, a human rights framework can provide objective... for the progressive realisation of rights. The adoption of a human rights based approach can set legal... and decision making. The Commission recommends approaches to human rights impact assessment

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The Commission has written to the Clinical and Professional Advisory Group for Care Homes in Scotland, setting out a range of human rights considerations that should be taken into account in developing guidance on visiting for adult care homes in the context of COVID-19. The Commission has recently been contacted by members of the public expressing their ongoing concern at the arrangements for visiting residents of Scotland’s care homes during the pandemic. It is also an issue which has been

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and realising human rights. We look forward to the Committee’s debate and hope that Scotland’s parliamentarians will take the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to progressing human rights.” ENDS...The Scottish Human Rights Commission, with the support of a range of leading civil society... to the right to social security as outlined in international human rights law when implementing... see Ministers placed under a duty to have ‘due regard’ to the international human right to social