Human Rights and COVID-19

We have collated our work on human rights and COVID-19 below.  We will update this page regularly. 

Read our full statement: Human Rights in a Time of Crisis.

Read our COVID-19 Business Continuity Update (18 March 2020).

30 April 2020

• Briefing: Issues relating to criminal trials as a consequence of COVID-19

4 June 2020

• Evidence to Justice Committee on Police Scotland’s use of temporary powers

8 June 2020

• Paper to Independent Advisory Group Considering Police Scotland Use of Temporary Emergency Powers

5 October 2020

• Paper on The Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Produced for the Independent Advisory Group on Police Scotland’s Use of Temporary Powers.

The Commission is a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Police Scotland's use of emergency powers.