Executive Summary: ICESCR 2025 (Word)

Executive Summary: An accessible Microsoft Word version of executive summary for the Parallel Report of the Scottish Human Rights Commission to Replies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the list of issues in relation to its seventh periodic report to the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights Monday 10 February 2025

Report: ICESCR 2025 (Word)

An accessible Microsoft Word version of Parallel Report of the Scottish Human Rights Commission to Replies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the list of issues in relation to its seventh periodic report to the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights Monday 10 February 2025

Consultation submission on 10 year strategy for policing in Scotland

The Commission has responded to the consultation on the 10 year strategy for policing in Scotland. We welcome the commitment to the values of fairness, integrity and respect as well as to a rights based approach to policing in the proposed strategy. However, we recommend that human rights should be explicitly cited whilst mainstreamed across the whole strategy. Wednesday 07 June 2017

Commissions disappointed with court view on Serco lock change policy

Joint statement by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Human Rights... today. Commenting on the judgment, Judith Robertson, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and Lynn Welsh, Head of Legal for the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland, said: "We remain... fails to comply with people's human rights including their right to a private and family life. We... obligations under human rights laws when it comes to providing this accommodation and that the UK Government Friday 12 April 2019

A year of contrasts: Annual Report 2021-22

Ian Duddy, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, reflects on the Annual Report 2021-22. Like many other public bodies in Scotland, the Scottish Human Rights Commission publishes an annual... state of human rights in Scotland. This year’s Annual Report highlights a year of contrasts... repeating the same mistakes in the future. Human rights must remain an integral part of that Inquiry... standard of living, then human rights are not being fully respected. We need to ensure that over Monday 31 October 2022