Next for HumanRights? Setting the Research Agenda”
Call for Abstracts is now live for this year’s HumanRights Knowledge Exchange in partnership with the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS).
The Scottish HumanRights Commission will be hosting an event... opportunity for PhD students across Scotland to share their research and connect with people working in humanrights, policy and practice. You don’t have to be a humanrights scholar to apply – if your
for an ethical framework for both health and social care in Scotland which sets out ethical and humanrights-based principles to guide decision-making. See our briefing.
We believe that the clinical guidance would be significantly enhanced by explicit consideration of and reference to humanrights...The Commission has today written to Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer providing comments and recommendations in relation to the COVID-19 Clinical Guidance published on 3rd April. We welcome
serious humanrights issues in Scotland, including high levels of food insecurity and homelessness.
We... that the rising cost of living is putting humanrights at risk in Scotland.
What is most concerning is that Scotland might not be meeting some of its most basic obligations under international human... in Scotland, the most basic obligations of economic, social and cultural rights need to be met urgently... to the Equalities, HumanRights and Civil Justice Committee at the Scottish Parliament.
* Scottish Health
The Scottish HumanRights Commission has welcomed the humanrights 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 humanrights impact statement, following our evidence..., the Commission submitted written evidence and oral evidence explaining the humanrights implications of the bill
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