The Commission would like to invite people with experience of poverty to join a Reference Group on Poverty and Adequate Standard of Living. The group will help inform our work to implement Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights, and our work more generally.
We would like to support people who experience poverty to influence decisions which affect them, using human rights as a tool for change.
Read the Call for Participants in Word format.
The Commission has issued a statement on the human rights concerns raised about Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
"The Scottish Human Rights Commission notes concerns over detention at Dungavel... organisations for human rights organisations to be allowed entry to it.
The Commission’s... to human rights concerns. We are calling for an urgent review of the practice of indeterminate detention.
The Commission is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights of everyone in Scotland
The Scottish Human Rights Commission have published the Annual Report for 2011 / 2012. The Annual Report has been lodged at the Scottish Parliament today.
Read the Annual Report in PDF format.
Read the Annual Report in Word format.
The Annual Report contains details on the Commission's performance and work in 2011//2012. Including information on putting a Human Rights Based Approach into practice, emerging issues and engagement and the Commission's international role.
If you would like a paper
The Commission invites interested parties to submit applications for a small scale research project to support the human rights component of NHS Health Scotland’s Health Inequalities Impact Assessment work.
The purpose of the work is to produce an output of around six case studies, or practice examples, which asses the human rights impacts of selected policies, legislation or strategies and develop supporting guidance where necessary.
Read the Tender Document and apply.
The deadline
Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP) is recruiting for members for the SNAP...-chaired by the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Government. Members will work together as equals to finalise, launch and oversee Scotland’s next National Action Plan for Human Rights... experience of human rights issues in Scotland (“rights holders”) (around 13 people)
Senior decision... and experiences are encouraged to apply, alongside rights holders who identify as belonging to one or more
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