Fact-finding visit
An essential part of this project was for the Commission to go to the Highlands and Islands and to hear first-hand from human rights defenders on the ground about the issues facing their communities.
In late 2023, Project Lead Dr Luis F Yanes and various members of the Commission team undertook a six week fact-finding trip to the Highlands and Islands, visiting more than twenty towns across six local authorities and meeting with 146 people, including:
human rights defenders
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Recommendations of the Taskforce
Recommendation 1...-stating the rightsprotected by the Human Rights Act which gives domestic effect to the European... for its implementation, to report specifically on how a duty to take the statutory human rights... of the reasonableness of a measure that takes into account international human rightslaw standards... of international human rightslaw, within the legislation.
Recommendation 30: Further consideration should
Human rights start at home - and nowhere is this clearer than in our economic, social and cultural rights (ESC Rights) says our Chair Professor Angela O’Hagan
Housing, work, healthcare, food, education and access to social security - these are all ESC rights, protected by international human rights treaties.
This week the Scottish Human Rights Commission is giving evidence to the United Nations... commitment to making these rights real in law in Scotland, then people would have had a direct route
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