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  • Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 12th October 2022

Sign up to keep up to date with our work on human rights and opportunities to get involved.

The ALLIANCE works to support human rights to be embedded across health and social care policy and practice. The growing focus on human rights in Scotland is a welcome development towards building a society in which all people are equally valued.

The Scottish Government has committed to incorporating four international human rights treaties into Scots law via a new Human Rights Bill.  Human rights incorporation has been a key priority for the ALLIANCE. In March 2021, 126 individuals and organisations joined the ALLIANCE and Inclusion Scotland in calling for full and direct incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People into Scots law. In June 2022 we held a session as part of our Annual Conference on the forthcoming Bill. We are planning to engage closely with members when the consultation for the Bill is published in 2023.

If you are interested in staying up to date with our work in this area, or if you’d like to find out more about news and developments around human rights in health and social care, you can subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular updates. The updates will also feature information on various upcoming information events and engagement opportunities.

To subscribe email gillian.mcelroy@alliance-scotland.org.uk. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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