Scottish Human Rights Commission

The challenges with accessing human rights to health, housing, and food across the Highlands and Islands have been uncovered by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC).

Housing is the building block on which a host of human rights are based on, according to the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Chair of the Commission, Professor Angela O’Hagan, and her team met with the Castlemilk Housing and Human Rights Lived Experience Group to explore a range of issues fa

The Scottish Human Rights Commission, together with a coalition of Scottish Disabled People’s organisations, warns that disabled people are experiencing ‘unrelenting attacks on their human rights’ in reports to the UN. The two parallel reports for the United Nations highlight worse

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued a new policy briefing which details how COVID-19 has impacted the human right to adequate housing in Scotland. Part of a series of briefings highlighting areas of human rights concern during the pandemic, the document explores poverty and increa

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes have raised “serious human rights concerns” under Article 2 of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the right to life, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has stated. The intervention came in response to a letter from Scottish La

Scottish Labour has called on the Scottish Human Rights Commission to launch an investigation into the Scottish Government's treatment of care home residents.  Richard Leonard has written to the commission asking them to ensure that the human rights of Scotland’s care home

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has today launched a report which shares lessons learned from four years working with local people in Leith to use human rights to tackle poor housing conditions.

Scotland’s highest civil court has found that lock-change evictions of asylum seekers without court orders are lawful in a judgment whose implications are "deeply concerning".

To celebrate Scottish Housing Day, Highland Council is due to hold a public event in Inverness called Highland Housing Extravaganza. Highland Council is hosting the event in partnership with the Highland Housing Register partners tomorrow.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has been granted leave to intervene in the continuing legal challenge to the “serious human rights implications” of Serco's lock-change policy. The private accommodation provider began its mass eviction policy of up to 300 people in Glasgow, whose cla

The rights of disabled people to independent living are being continually eroded as health and social care budgets are slashed, the UK’s equality and human rights bodies have warned. As the United Nations (UN) prepares to examine the UK’s track record on disabled people’s rights today, new ana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSOxT6FUPE&feature=youtu.be Shelter Scotland’s Nora Uhrig asks what does the right to housing mean and why is it so important to see housing as a human right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSOxT6FUPE A Scottish human rights body has produced a series of case studies profiling how communities in Scotland are using human rights to tackle poor housing, challenge poverty and improve health.