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Scottish civil society is very concerned about potential serious human rights breaches during the coronavirus crisis. Thirty organisations have written to MSPs to highlight a [...]

COVID-19 requires extraordinary response from government at all levels, as well as from the population.Parliaments at both Westminster and Holyrood will therefore consider [...]

The right to health, life and liberty are all at risk as long as people are held in immigration detention during the corona virus outbreak. The Consortium signed a letter, [...]

The European Court of Human Rights has several times found that it is an infringement of ECHR rights for the UK to have blanket bans on all voting rights for prisoners.  [...]

A poll commissioned by charity EachOther (formerly RightsInfo) found that by far the majority of people living in the UK believe that human rights laws must protect everyone [...]

Rights concerns about policing, biometric technologies, a lack of independent advocacy and prison conditions, amongst many other concerns, have all been raised with the the [...]

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland has submitted views to the Scottish Parliament highlighting that there are big barriers to justice around human rights in Scotland. The [...]

EU citizens whose homes are in Scotland have to apply for permission to stay here after Brexit.  However, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, and many other civil [...]

The Scottish Government has made the very welcome announcement that they will directly incorporate the UNCRC to the maximum extent possible within devolution. On 30th [...]

Nourish Scotland together with the Scottish Human Rights Commission have produced a short animation around the right to food. A helpful summary of why the right to food is [...]