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Date: 7th July 2022
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Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
For our 2022 State of Children’s Rights report, many of you kindly shared with us the challenges you face when working with decision-makers such as Scottish Parliament. We used what you told us, alongside the recommendations made by Rights Right Now! to respond to a consultation launched by Scottish Parliament. We hope our answers will help to ensure Scottish Parliament’s work involves, reflects and meets the needs of the full range of communities it represents.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Children’s Parliament has a wealth of experience working with children to participate in climate change action. Drawing from this, it recently helped to inform the UN Special Rapporteur on climate change actions to address the world’s climate emergency. Children’s Parliament also identified human rights issues associated with the climate change emergency.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Special protection measures
Certain detention practices, for example in Scottish prisons, may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDT). This briefing sets out the minimum threshold for a finding of torture or CIDT in detention, in breach of children’s rights.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Care Experienced children
The Promise Scotland Oversight Board is responsible for monitoring the progress towards keeping The Promise. The Promise aims to ensure the most vulnerable children feel loved, respected, listened to and heard in decisions that affect them. Reporting annually until 2030, the Board conclude that although progress is being made, the delivery bodies responsible for Keeping the Promise need to increase the pace and scale of change.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Child poverty
After speaking to 49 parents, JRF and Save the Children have made 50 recommendations on how Scottish Government can address the gaps in its second Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan. These recommendations aim to ensure action does not fall short of ambition to tackle child poverty.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Protection of privacy
Thirty-seven organisations write to Secretary of State Nadine Dorries, urging the UK Government to adopt their amendments to the Online Safety Bill. In doing so, this will work to uphold the rights of children online.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Civil Rights and Freedoms
This new report reviews the fundamental rights that were fulfilled or left unfulfilled across the EU in 2021. It looks at areas such as equality and non-discrimination; racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; Roma equality and inclusion; asylum, borders and migration; child rights and access to justice.
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Closing date: 15th August 2022 (extended)
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Mental health
Closing date: 9th September 2022
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Funding
Closing date: 9th September 2022
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Date: 7th July 2022
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Respect for the views of the child
You are invited to take part in this survey if you are an organisation who works with young people and supports them to share their views on issues that matter to them! The aim of conducting this survey is to better understand how organisations successfully support young people to influence decision-making and identify what barriers there are.
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Date: 4th July 2022
Category:
Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
Representatives from across Scotland’s third-sector have united in their condemnation of the UK Government’s Rights Removal Bill.
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Date: 1st July 2022
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Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Alongside Children’s Rights Alliance for England, part of Just for Kids Law, Children in Wales and the Children's Law Centre, we have written to the Commissioner for Human Rights. Within our letter, we highlight our concerns over the repeal of the Human Rights Act with the Rights Removal Bill.
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Date: 10th June 2022
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Equal protection from violence, Child justice system
The joint letter, coordinated by CYCJ and supported by 19 organisations, says that children who are accused of offending behaviour should also be supported through the Bairns’ Hoose, as well as child victims and witnesses.
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Date: 9th June 2022
Category:
Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
We’re looking to write a report on the state of children’s rights in Scotland and share this with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Our report will inform the UN Committee's recommendations on what the Scottish and UK governments should be doing to better respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights. To help gather an on-the-ground picture of children’s rights in Scotland, we really need to hear from children, young people and YOU!
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Date: 9th June 2022
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Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Discover the journey, learning and impact of the work of the Climate Changemakers from October 2020 to February 2022. Climate Changemakers are children across Scotland who are working to have their say in climate action! They have made recommendations for the future realisation of children’s rights in the context of the climate action and deliberative democracy.
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Date: 9th June 2022
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Education, including vocational education
Scottish Government has announced funding to enable UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools programme to be delivered to 2,400 primary and secondary state schools across Scotland. This funding will last for three years and will work to embed children’s rights into schools’ ethos and further their understanding.
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Date: 9th June 2022
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Expected to succeed Judith Robertson, Iain Duddy will be taking up the role of Chair later this month. As a former ambassador and a senior civil servant, Iain Duddy has worked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, led the Human Rights and Rule of Law Department at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and worked in areas of justice, religious freedom and modern slavery.
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Date: 9th June 2022
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms
Recruitment for this year’s #IWill Ambassador cohort is now open! This is a fantastic way to celebrate the incredible contributions that young people aged 12 -25 are making in their communities, society and the environment. You can get involved by encouraging children and young people you work with to apply to be an Ambassador or take to social media to celebrate the #PowerOfYouth.
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Date: 9th June 2022
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General measures of implementation
The National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership looked at whether Scotland should incorporate different human rights conventions into Scots law. Its report included a recommendation that a new human rights framework should recognise human dignity as the underpinning value of all human rights. This new research assesses the impact of talking about ‘dignity’ when it comes to creating a human rights culture.
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