The Commission has made a statement in response to the United Nations HumanRights Committee’s Seventh Periodic Review of the UK’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Experiences of the Adequate Standard of Living Reference Group during the first five weeks of lockdown.
The Scottish HumanRights Commission supports and works with a Reference Group of people with lived experience of poverty from across Scotland. The group are experts in poverty and in rights based approaches to tackling poverty.
With a diverse membership, the experiences of group members during..., reflections and recommendations with the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and HumanRights Committee
A response from the Scottish Government following a joint letter on Restraint and Seclusion from the the Scottish HumanRights Commission, Children and Young People's Commissioner, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, The Promise Scotland and Equality and HumanRights Commission Scotland.
for the protection of humanrights in public services. The Commission notes the Court of Session’s interpretation of case law on the application of the HumanRights Act in the context of contracted out services... in practice, the state (including Scottish public bodies) should make humanrights obligations... as an intervener in the permission to appeal which we believe raises important issues about the protection of humanrights where services are delivered by private contractors.
While each situation is different
' concerns and deliver the necessary improvements.
Professor Angela O’Hagan, Chair of the Scottish HumanRights Commission, says:
“The Scottish HumanRights Commission is concerned by the findings... for Scotland’s Gypsy Traveller community is a human right and is protected in international humanrights law.
“Access to appropriate housing without discrimination is protected by a number of international humanrights treaties to which the UK is a party, for example, the United Nations (UN) Convention
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