Human Rights

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The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s human rights obligations, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned. Following scrutiny of the bill to assess its human rights implications, the committee has published a report highli

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The UK National Preventive Mechanism has warned in its annual report that governments across the UK have repeatedly failed to take meaningful action to alleviate human rights concerns in places of detention. Systemic issues continue in detention settings across the UK, which include prisons, police

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Staff at public bodies can be “overwhelmed” with the implementation of human rights laws in their organisations, a new study warns. When laws are viewed as sacrosanct, control over their interpretation and implementation can be seen as the responsibility of a privileged few, according to

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People in Scotland are more likely to support human rights than not and are increasingly worried about having fewer human rights, according to new research. YouGov research published by the Scottish Human Rights Commission shows that almost half of people in Scotland support human rights. Support fo

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COP28 hosts the United Arab Emirates has ignored calls from international civil society to demonstrate its respect for human rights as it refused to release imprisoned dissidents, Amnesty International said. The Emirati government’s legislation and practices impose severe restrictions on the r

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More than 1,070 members of the legal profession have called on the UK government to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank and to take urgent steps to ensure the UK government does not violate international humanitarian law or aid or assist its violation by others. The letter, or

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An examination of Scotland’s equality and human rights landscape over the last five years has been published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The Equality and Human Rights Monitor report assesses the state of equality and human rights across Britain. Specific findings from S

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The Law Society of Scotland has confirmed its support for new legislation to enhance the legal protection of human rights, while warning of significant hurdles to successful implementation. The professional body for Scottish solicitors has now made a detailed submission to the Scottish government&rs

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The Scottish Human Rights Commission recommends that careful consideration is given to the legal approach to achieving the new Human Rights Bill, in a consultation response to the Scottish government. The commission has set out its position on the proposed Human Rights Bill in a series of three repo

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Disabled people in Scotland are experiencing "unrelenting attacks on their human rights", a number of organisations have told the United Nations. Two parallel reports for the UN highlight worsening poverty rates for disabled people in Scotland and how the cost of living is affecting their ability to

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The International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) have joined forces to monitor war crime trials in courts in Kyiv and Kharkiv Oblasts from July until the end of September 2023. The monitoring will be delivered as part of the United States Agency for International Devel

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A dozen Caribbean countries are considering asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on the issue of reparations for the slave-trade and European colonial violence. Ralph Gonsalves, president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), told Th

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