Human Rights Day 2015 and launch of Rights for Life webpage
21 December 2015
To celebrate Human Rights Day 2015, the Equality and Diversity Forum’s Equally Ours project launched a new Rights for Life webpage.
To celebrate Human Rights Day 2015, the Equality and Diversity Forum’s Equally Ours project launched a new Rights for Life webpage.
A letter from the Equality and Diversity Forum and 150 other organisations marking International Human Rights Day was published in the Times newspaper on 10 December 2015.
A ‘Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child’ was published by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and the Council of Europe in November 2015.
The report of the inter-departmental ministerial group on modern slavery was published in October 2015.
Scotland believes in equality for all. One Scotland celebrates the progress already made on equality whilst recognising the work still to be done to achieve a truly inclusive society.
In 2015, the Scotland legal team of the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched ‘equality : online’, a series of legal webcasts for practitioners, advisers and academics.
‘Equality, human rights and access to civil law justice: A literature review’ was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in October 2015.
In October 2015, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency published a series of animation films about the rights that children should enjoy when they are involved in judicial proceedings.
The findings of this report underscore the importance of access to the High Court’s inherent supervisory jurisdiction, for claimants, defendants, and for the wider public interest.
this collection of essays provides divergent perspectives on whether and how human rights NGOs should pursue social justice.