Human Rights

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 ...

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 ...

More than 50 organisations have signed an open letter to First Minister Humza Yousaf warning that plans for a Scottish Human Rights Bill must not be ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extensive war crimes are being committed in Sudan as the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) ravages the country, Amnesty International ...

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 ...

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 ...