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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled again that the UK’s blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting is a violation of the European Convention on Human [...]

The human right to food should be put into law in Scotland to protect people from rising food insecurity and the impacts of Brexit, according to a new Scottish Human Rights [...]

Survivors of childhood abuse, which occurred in care in Scotland, can now apply for advanced redress payments. The scheme will be open to people who have a terminal illness [...]

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland and SCVO have highlighted our profound concern about the protection of rights after Brexit. Writing to the House of Lords EU Justice [...]

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland was a signatory to a letter to the Minister for Children and Young People, Maree Todd MSP asking her to confirm a date when a [...]

The UK Government’s Right to Rent policy has been found to be incompatible with human rights and in breach of the Equality Act 2010. The judgement prevents the UK [...]

Three major new civil society reports into Brexit have been published: The Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe’s report sets out Panel members’ views and [...]

Scotland’s Council leaders met with Gypsy Travellers to hear about the difficulties they face in their daily lives. Many Gypsy Travellers’ economic and social rights [...]

New Government figures show that 1.03 million people in Scotland are living below the poverty threshold.  This is a 1% rise of 30,000 people living in relative poverty in [...]

There have been widespread concerns about whether Scotland’s mental health legislation protects individual’s rights. Now the Government has announced that the law will be [...]