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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 [...]

Just Fair, an organisation which advocates for the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights, has issued a statement in celebration of the Scottish [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee has published its report on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on human rights in Scotland. The report [...]

The Independent Panel tasked with reviewing the Human Rights Act has issued a Call for Evidence on the topic. Organisations and individuals have until the 3rd March 2021 to [...]