The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published its submission to the Scottish Government’s consultation on a financial redress scheme for survivors of historic child abuse.
Read the full... that government adopts a much more explicit human rights based approach to the scheme’s purpose, principles... historic abuse as a human rights violation.
Eligibility criteria for the scheme should be developed...; the human rights framework can help to assess where the balance lies between the right to peaceful
Members of the Scottish Parliament will discuss the Regulation of Care for Older People in a debate tomorrow (Wednesday 7 March).
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the debate in the Scottish Parliament, and has sent a briefing note to all MSPs highlighting key human rights considerations ahead of the debate.
Read the briefing in Word format.
The Health and Sport Committee has already made a number of recommendations for areas of improvement which will enhance the accountability
football grounds. In this briefing, the Commission highlights some of the key human rights... rights principles and is necessary and proportionate.
Read the briefing in full (PDF).
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the apology from the Scottish Government to members of the Gypsy Traveller Community for the 'Tinker Experiment'. Victims of the experiment, alongside organisations like RAJPOT, have long campaigned for recognition of this issue and an apology is an important first step towards redress for historic and ongoing injustice.
We will publish our human... to engage with victims of the experiment and human rights defenders on this topic. Once completed we
that Professor Alan Miller, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), regards Westminster.... "It is relatively isolated in Europe in its attitude towards human rights," he says.
Seven days earlier... that has vowed to scrap the Human Rights Act, merely exacerbates Miller's frustration. "It's an example of something that will not be done because to do it would be contrary to human rights... exudes a sense of pride over Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights - a UK first which
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