Impact Assessment

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 Thursday 20 October 2016

Letter to the Presiding Officer on SHRC Governance Review

Letter to the Presiding Officer on SHRC's Independent Governance Review Wednesday 06 September 2023

Visiting Guidance for Adult Care Homes

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 Tuesday 01 September 2020

Commission calls for 'due regard duty' to advance right to social security

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 Wednesday 31 January 2018

Why we are spotlighting this issue (1) (1)

  We have been particularly concerned about the lack of available data for monitoring in the Highlands and Islands, when compared with the rest of Scotland. By listening to the lived experiences of residents and organisations in the area, as well as through our human rights treaty monitoring work, we identified specific issues affecting rural and island communities, such as: Slow and inaccessible health care services Lack of affordable housing Limited access to sufficient and nutritious food Thursday 25 July 2024