Heads of UN Announce Commitment to Children’s Environmental Rights
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 [...]
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Using Human Rights Survey- Can You Help?
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 [...]
New Report Launch, ‘Delivering Human Rights in Scotland During COVID-19: A 2020 Survey of Public Authorities’
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 [...]
Scottish Government Responds to Amnesty’s Call for COVID Public Inquiry
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 [...]
Post Brexit, we’re asking the wrong questions on human rights
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 [...]
Judicial review in court is working well, finds independent panel
In Autumn 2020, the UK Government set up an Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) to address some significant, fundamental issues around the [...]
Just Fair Issues Statement Celebrating Scotland’s Commitment to Incorporation
Just Fair, an organisation which advocates for the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights, has issued a statement in celebration of the Scottish [...]
HRCS welcomes BIG step forward for human rights in Scotland!
A Government-led Taskforce has recommended that, as soon as possible, four UN treaties should, for the first time, be incorporated into Scots law. These include many of our [...]
Consortium Submits Response to Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
The Consortium and several member organisations have created a joint submission to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act, whose call for evidence closed today (3rd [...]
New Recording Available: Human Rights Act Training Session, 19th February 2021
On the 19th February 2021, the Consortium ran a joint training session on the Human Rights Act, alongside the British Institute for Human Rights (BIHR). Eilidh Turnbull, [...]