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Two new briefings published by the Civil Society Brexit Project offer valuable insight into economic and social rights in Scotland, and the extent to which we are keeping up [...]

A new report has been published, ‘Asking Some Important Questions: A Collation of Scottish Civil Society Questions for UK and Scottish Governments After UK Withdrawal [...]

There are BIG plans for a new human rights law in Scotland. The Scottish Government has committed to introducing a Bill to incorporate four more international human [...]

Last month (June 2021) the heads of several United Nations (UN) entities published ‘Step Up!’ a joint written commitment to promote the right of children, young [...]

In order to shape our work, as well as to inform government and grant funders, there is a pressing need for more insight and better evidence around what organisations need [...]

A new joint report from the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and Amnesty International has found that most public authorities cannot provide evidence of human rights-based [...]

Last month (March 2021), Amnesty International in Scotland wrote to the First Minister, asking her Government to commission a public inquiry into the impact of the COVID-19 [...]

In this article for Bylines, Consortium Director Mhairi Snowden explains that we are asking the wrong questions about human rights in a post-Brexit UK, and argues that we [...]

In Autumn 2020, the UK Government set up an Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) to address some significant, fundamental issues around the [...]