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We are committed to working alongside people and communities, to document and bear witness to their experiences. All our Spotlight Projects are informed by the experiences of rights holders, but opportunities for participation depend on the project. To find out more about getting involved in a specific project, contact us on hello@scottishhumanrights.com
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the expression of cultural identity.
International humanrights law recognises that these rights might...The right to adequate housing was defined by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1991 in its General Comment 4. The right to housing means:
Legal security of tenure: everyone should be guaranteed security of tenure.
Availability of services: everyone should have available facilities and infrastructure such as drinking water, energy for cooking, heating
The Scottish HumanRights 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
The Commission made two written responses to the Public Petitions Committee on petition PE 1362, which calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to clearly demonstrate how the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 is compliant with the European Convention on HumanRights, the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the key tenets of Scots Law and to publish the documents and evidence of such compliance.
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