Rise Up: Amnesty International's course for young people interested in achieving social change.

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms

Amnesty International has launched Rise Up which is a fully funded, one-year course designed to equip young people who are passionate about Human Rights with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to make positive change happen in their communities.

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The 2018 Day of General Discussion (DGD) outcome report is adopted!

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The 2018 DGD outcome report is adopted! We are delighted to announce that the CRC Committee has adopted the 2018 DGD outcome report on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders!

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Consultation: Scottish Sentencing Council seeks views on the draft guideline on the criminal sentencing process.

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Scottish Sentencing Council is launching a public consultation on its second draft sentencing guideline, which sets out the sentencing process for all offences. This draft guideline describes the steps taken by judges when making sentencing decisions, and the various factors which may be taken into account. The Council is keen to hear from all of those with an interest in its work. The consultation is open until 6 September 2019. Further information about the consultation, along with the consultation documents and online response form, can be found here

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Complaints materials for children and young people

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Children's Reporter Association (SCRA) has launched a new suite of materials to provide information and support to children and young people on how to complain if they wish to.

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Together guest-edits special International Human Rights Journal

Date: 6th June 2019
Category: General measures of implementation

A special edition of the International Journal of Human Rights has been published, guest-edited by Together staff with Dr Andressa Gadda and Professor Kay Tisdall. The special edition, Human Rights Monitoring and Implementation , aims to enhance the critical evidence and strategic approach to implementing human rights in practice, outlining efforts in ensuring children can exercise their UNCRC rights in their day-to-day lives.

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Scottish Human Rights Commission Strategic Priorities 2020–24

Date: 6th June 2019
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The Scottish Human Rights Commission is developing its Strategic Plan for 2020 – 2024. To help set their priorities and improve how they work, they would like to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland.

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Calls for children’s input into standards for child campaigning

Date: 6th June 2019
Category: Freedom of association and peaceful assembly

For the past several months, dozens of partners, including Child Rights Connect have been involved in defining sector ‘Standards for Child Campaigning’. The Standards aim to define how civil society should best enable child led / centered civic action and campaigning and to shift practices away from “fitting children’s participation into adult led organization’s priorities and activities” to an approach where “adult led organizations support children’s priorities”.

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Realigning Children’s Services Programme: evaluation report

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

On behalf of the Scottish Government, CELCIS (the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland) commissioned Blake Stevenson to evaluate the Realigning Children's Services (RCS) programme.

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Using CRWIA to promote child-rights-based decision-making

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

In a project conducted by the Human Rights Clinic at University of Edinburgh in partnership with Together, LLM students explored the role of CRWIA (Children’s Rights and Well-being Impact Assessment) in improving rights-based decision-making. Two groups of students explored various international examples of impact assessments and drew learning to analyse the effectiveness of CRWIA in Scotland.

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Mosquito device found at Edinburgh’s Waverley Mall.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, UN Convention Against Torture (CAT), Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

The mosquito device has been branded as a ‘successful’ deterrent for anti-social behaviour. It is used to deter loitering of young people by emitting sound at high frequency, so it can be heard mostly by younger people. Mosquito devices have been overtly condemned by the UN, Council of Europe and the Children’s Commissioner all requesting that they be banned, yet on 30 th May 2019 another device has been discovered at Edinburgh’s Waverley Mall.

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