Human Rights InterActions

A human rights interaction brings together individuals and communities, policy and decision-makers and independent experts in a series of participatory steps that stand for a ‘FAIR’ way of drawing out the Facts of a problem being experienced, Analysis of the specific human rights at issue, Identification of shared responsibilities and necessary actions to fulfill such human rights and Recall after an agreed period of time so as to measure progress in the realisation of these human rights.

The Commission wants to build a ‘human rights in practice network’ across Scotland as part of its Outreach work to help empower people to realise their rights and to make human rights more ‘user-friendly’ in everyday life. A human rights interaction is one method of demonstrating how human rights can be made user-friendly. Contributors to building a practice network for the Commission took part in a human rights interaction on the right to mental health.

Read the full report from the Recall stage of this interaction