The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the First Minister’s announcement that the Scottish Government will amend its COVID-19 certification scheme, to allow people the option of evidencing a recent negative lateral flow test as an alternative to vaccination status.
This change... interference with human rights including: the right to private and family life, which covers... measures that interfere with human rights, the scheme should be subject to regular meaningful
A joint letter from members of the UK Independent Mechanism (UKIM), designated under Article 33.2 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UN CRPD).
In August 2023, a UKIM report indicated little progress had been made to implement the Committee’s recommendations from its inquiry into the UK, which found ‘grave and systematic’ violations of the Convention. This letter provides more information in response to questions asked
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (the Commission) invites interested parties to submit an application to undertake a short piece of research to inform the Commission’s submission to Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women as part of the periodic review of the United Kingdom. The Commission intends to submit shadow reports for both the pre-session, taking place in July 2018, and for the full review which will be held in February 2019. The research
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