Members of the Leadership Panel for Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights have written to the Smith Commission, drawing attention to human rights considerations in the context of devolving further powers.
Dear Lord Smith
Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP... recognised human rights are realised in people’s lives.
SNAP, launched on Dec 10 2013 with broad cross-party... to the importance of human rights considerations when it comes to devolving further powers
The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the debate today (2 February 2012) in the Scottish Parliament on Prison Visiting Committees.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission is the National Human Rights Institution for Scotland and is part of the National Preventative Mechanism (NPM) under... service for prisons, but considers that this should run alongside the human rights protections... the protection of human rights for all of the people in Scotland.
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the publication of the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee Stage 1 Report on the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill.
Following the Bill’s introduction in June 2014, the Commission submitted evidence to the Committee highlighting the Bill’s potential impact on people’s human rights. We recommended a series of actions including encouraging... has recognised that any new legislation should protect the rights of people accessing mental health
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to highlight... Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2020 were fully compliant with human rights obligations... of cell, much more needs to be done to comply with human rights obligations and prison standards... available to enable adequate monitoring of prison conditions and their compliance with human rights.../news/breaches-of-human-rights-in-prisons-during-the-pandemic/
(ii) On 20 March 2020, the Council
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) protects disabled people's rights. CRPD says that institutionalisation should be replaced by personalised support in the community, chosen by the people who need it. The Scottish Government have ratified this Treaty, which means that they must take action to make this happen for disabled people in Scotland.
In the 1990s, the Scottish Government decided that all large institutions for people with learning disabilities/autism would
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