for an ethical framework for both health and social care in Scotland which sets out ethical and humanrights-based principles to guide decision-making. See our briefing.
We believe that the clinical guidance would be significantly enhanced by explicit consideration of and reference to humanrights
The Scottish HumanRights Commission has published a briefing on The Right to Food in Scotland..., said:
“Everyone in Scotland has the right to food – this is set out in international humanrights... HumanRights Commission is calling on the Scottish Government to take a rights-based approach as we... HumanRights Commission and Nourish Scotland launched an animation in November 2019 on the Right... and civil society to meet need, emergency community-based provision is not a rights based approach
The Commission is monitoring the use of new technologies within operational policing and has raised concerns about the potential humanrights impacts of the use of these new technologies, particularly in relation to respect for privacy and family life, due process and the right to a fair trial and protection of democratic freedoms e.g. freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
We have been particularly concerned about the lack of available data for monitoring in the Highlands and Islands, when compared with the rest of Scotland. By listening to the lived experiences of residents and organisations in the area, as well as through our humanrights treaty monitoring work, we identified specific issues affecting rural and island communities, such as:
Slow and inaccessible health care services
Lack of affordable housing
Limited access to sufficient and nutritious food
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