The Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Ian Duddy, is to take up a new position as Chief Executive of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry this summer.
The process of recruiting a new Chair will be led by the Scottish Parliament in due course.
The Commission is an independent public body with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in Scotland. It continues this work led by Executive Director Jan Savage and its part-time Commissioners, currently Claire Methven O’Brien, Jim Farish
Children’s human rights are to be incorporated into Scots law, after MSPs in the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (UNCRC).
It comes after more than a decade of campaigning by young human rights defenders and human rights organisations across Scotland.
The UNCRC is an international treaty setting out the rights that children and young people are entitled to and was ratified by the UK in 1991.
Its
As the Scottish Government prepares to put its tax and spending plans for 2024-25 before the Scottish Parliament, embedding human rights into government spending would be one of the most powerful tools for change, says Dr Alison Hosie, Research Officer at the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
The Scottish Government is not yet budgeting through a human rights based lens, according to the evidence... at the Social Justice and Social Security Committee (SJSSC) at the Scottish Parliament, where we gave evidence
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