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The EU Withdrawal Bill – originally called the Great Repeal Bill – was subject to considerable debate, criticism and lobbying as it made its way through [...]

A new award to honour men and women overseas who champion human rights in the most challenging of circumstances is being launched by the Faculty of Advocates. The winner of [...]

On 23rd and 24th July, Scotland’s Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC went to court to argue with the the UK’s law officer Lord Keen about Brexit. What was in discussion [...]

A group of organisations, including the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, have written to Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy, to ask him to bring forward [...]

The UK government have reported to the UN Human Rights Committee on their progress in implementing UN recommendations under five themes. The report included: Domestic human [...]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has published a report with a whole series of questions for government in the UK to respond to. [...]

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has invited applications to provide independent facilitation for the development of the second iteration of Scotland’s National Action [...]

A court has ruled that, to recognise a child’s right to family life set out in Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights, a 14-year-old boy should be able to apply to [...]

The First Minister set up an independent advisory group around leadership in human rights, and what Scotland should do to continue to progress rights after Brexit.  [...]

The Home Office arrested and removed 26 European nationals from Scotland for sleeping rough on the streets in a move now deemed unlawful, Freedom of Information requests by [...]