The Commission is very grateful to everyone who took part in our national consultation on our priority areas of work, across Scotland, from Lewis (featured left) to Dumfries, and everywhere in between. We met some very inspiring and hard working people. Here are the stories of some of them:

 

 

Stories are told eye to eye; mind to mind; heart to heart.

Scottish Travellers' Proverb

 

Rosaline McCluskie

June 4th 2009

Rosaline McLuskie is part of a community group in Ayrshire that established a cross-generational project called ‘Youth For Old Bike’ to help support vulnerable people in the community and offer meaningful activities for young people in the area. She shared her motivations for starting the project with the Commission.

Oche Onazi

May 28th 2009

Oche is a PhD student in law and tutor in jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a barrister and solicitor in his home country of Nigeria. He attended one of the Commission's consultation meetings and reflected upon his impressions of human rights in Scotland as a foreign student.

Monica Hodgkinson

May 28th 2009

Monica is the Client’s Rights Officer for Angus Council in Forfar. She reflects on a day in the life of being the Client's Rights Officer in her local authority.

Elizabeth Watson MBE

May 28th 2009

Betty is Chair of the Broomhouse Residents and Tenants Association in Edinburgh.

In this interview, she describes the importance of community 'concierges' for improving relations between young and old living in the housing scheme.