Submission: UK report on International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

The Commission has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the United Kingdom’s 7th periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Wednesday 01 July 2015

New report leads to call for human rights to be at the heart of post-COVID budget decisions, to ensure social and economic recovery

New report leads to call for human rights to be at the heart of post-COVID budget decisions, to ensure social and economic recovery Wednesday 29 April 2020

Commission publishes Annual Report 2021-2022

of international accreditation as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) by the United Nations... 2022. This year a key priority was our defence of the Human Rights Act and we will keep a watching... the four key priorities of our Strategic Plan 2020-2024. We welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to bring forward a new Human Rights Bill, a landmark step towards our goal of strengthening... Scotland’s human rights “report card” to the United Nations. The report made clear that Scotland still Monday 31 October 2022

Judith Robertson: Austerity, food banks, poverty ... why we need human rights laws.

Judith Robertson: Austerity, food banks, poverty ... why we need human rights laws. Tuesday 10 December 2019

Letter to First Minister requesting urgent update on the Human Rights Bill

A letter from the Members and incoming Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission to First Minister John Swinney requesting an urgent update on the Human Rights Bill. Tuesday 09 July 2024