State of the Nation warns that essential human rights are out of reach for many in Scotland

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) publishes its second comprehensive annual assessment of how human rights are being realised across Scotland, offering a snapshot of the pressures and inequalities shaping people’s daily lives. The State of the Nation 2025 report focuses on economic, social and cultural rights, the rights that ensure everyone can live with dignity: rights to adequate housing, health, social security, food, and fair working conditions. The report finds that for many Monday 08 December 2025

UK NHRIs issue joint statement highlighting risks to everybody in the UK if ECHR freedoms and protections are weakened

. The ECHR gives legal force to rights that belong to all of us and that we can recognise as fair Thursday 19 March 2026

Testing the system: are economic, social and cultural rights working for people in Scotland?

and fair as possible.  Our report, published last month, reflects our mandate to protect and promote human Tuesday 07 March 2023

The time to introduce human rights budgeting for Scottish councils is now

relationship’.  What is missing is the framework to support fair and transparent decision-making Saturday 17 June 2023

Scotland needs a National Action Plan

housing, fair pay, fuel poverty, availability of services in rural areas, policing, the rights Sunday 19 June 2016