Organisations urged to take part

Groups from across Scotland are being asked if they could host online conversations to inform development of new human rights law. 

Led by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, an engagement programme called All Our Rights In Law provides resources to organisations to hold around five key questions on human rights.

The National Taskforce on Human Rights Leadership was set up in 2019, and is made up of members from the public sector and civil society. It has been tasked with developing proposals for a new legal framework for human rights law in Scotland, which would for the first time, incorporate all our international human rights into domestic law. 

All of the views gathered through All Our Rights In Law will help to inform the Taskforce’s work. They will also be collated into a report to inform the next stage of the law’s development.

Mhairi Snowden, coordinator of Human Rights Consortium Scotland, said: “This law will include rights like the right to food, to housing and to health. These are essential everyday rights, and it is vital that human rights law is shaped by people’s experience of human rights in their everyday.

The Scottish voluntary sector is brilliant at engaging with people, often those furthest from the policy making table. This is a great opportunity to raise their voice in these big changes for human rights in Scotland.”

If you are part of a civil society or community group and you think that you could facilitate a discussion around human rights, please get in touch at allourrightsinlaw@gmail.com.

Alternatively, you can visit the website www.allourrightsinlaw.scot for more information and resources.