The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the human rights 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 human rights impact statement, following our evidence..., the Commission submitted written evidence and oral evidence explaining the human rights implications of the bill
Society Foundations. The OSF takes a human rights based approach across its advocacy and grant making... and human rights at local and global levels.
The Commission is extremely grateful to Duncan for his very significant contribution to promoting and protecting human rights in Scotland during his time with us... Scottish society to delivering Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Human Rights, an ambitious
In the fourth and final year of Scotland's first National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP), we are inviting interested parties to tender for a contract to develop and deliver a nationwide... Rights Day).
SNAP has engaged groups and organisations across Scotland in many different ways... is to ensure the participation of rights holders in the development of work going forward and to ensure that the experience of rights holders and a wider group of stakeholders drives the setting of priorities
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
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