Briefing: The Right to Food and COVID-19

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published a briefing on The Right to Food in Scotland during COVID-19. The briefing explains how COVID-19 has affected the right to food, exacerbating already high levels of food insecurity in Scotland. Despite the large-scale mobilisation of communities and civil society to meet need, emergency community-based provision is not a rights based approach for the long-term. Friday 03 July 2020

International Climate Justice conference announced

- a central issue for human rights in the 21st century - complementing the economic case... for Human Rights Mary Robinson will speak at the conference which will highlight the opportunities... of the Scottish Human Rights Commission said: "The Commission very much supports this timely... century's starkest challenge to human rights - including the rights to life, livelihood and way Wednesday 15 June 2016

Cyber kiosks: Commission on Government response to the Justice Sub-Committee report

We all have the right to privacy and to go about our lives free from unnecessary interference from the police. Mobile phone browsing technology - or cyber kiosks - has the potential to be highly intrusive of this right. The Scottish Human Rights Commission therefore wants to see clear rules... oversight.  The European Court of Human Rights has established that it is the state's responsibility... for clear, sufficient and robust safeguards, including appropriate oversight. People's rights to privacy Wednesday 05 June 2019

Independent Review, co-chaired by Commission, calls for radical reform to response to deaths in Scottish prisons

custody.  The independent investigatory body must have regard to applicable human rights standards... of the Scottish Human Rights Commission. It was commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice in November... with responsibilities to uphold human rights to take action to implement these recommendations.” Professor...’s human rights obligations, in particular the right to life provided for in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The state has the duty to protect the right to life Tuesday 30 November 2021

Commission Chair joins Independent Review into Handling of Deaths in Prison Custody

would also co-chair the review,  to ensure that an independent human rights-based perspective... human rights legal standards, at both the European and international levels and work across the other... on a revised Terms of Reference (ToR) which embed human rights principles and analysis into the review Wednesday 27 May 2020