Tag: Human rights
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Sex, suspects and secrecy: Police Scotland’s elastic approach to human rights
Introduction The recent arrest of 30-year-old Eve Shaw, a man previously known as Adam Shaw who identifies as a woman, has reignited the controversy around Police Scotland’s position on...
15th September 2026
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How the Scottish Human Rights Commission forgot about women in prison
Introduction The Scottish Human Rights Commission has an established record of supporting gender self-identification principles in policy and law. Most notably, it supported reform of the Gender Recognition Act...
4th April 2025
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MBM submission on the Human Rights Bill for Scotland
We recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government consultation on ‘A Human Rights Bill for Scotland’, which closed on 5 October. Our submission is shown below. The Ministerial...
8th October 2023