The Programme for Government announced yesterday signals the Scottish Government’s abject failure to deliver on their promise of a Scottish Human Rights Bill including the right to a healthy environment ...
Human right to a healthy environment
Lunchtime 101: Why Scotland needs a legal right to a healthy environment
What is the right to a healthy environment and what would legal environmental rights mean for Scotland? Watch our free lunchtime webinar ...
Former UN Special Rapporteur explains in 90 seconds why Scotland needs the right to a healthy environment
During the last six years as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Professor David R. Boyd has supported countless people across the world to implement and use their right to a healthy environment – watch his message to Scotland ...
Civil society groups call on First Minister to ‘show leadership’ by enshrining a legal right to a healthy environment – press release
Over sixty environmental, human rights, and health organisations have written an open letter to Scotland’s First Minister, urging him to push ahead with plans for an enforceable right to a heathy environment in the next Programme for Government ...
Reflecting on the Rights Detectives investigation into a right to a healthy environment for children and young people
Juliet Harris, Director of Together Scotland, reflects on how the right to a healthy environment can strengthen children’s rights across the First Ministers priority areas for action ...
The Rights Detectives: Investigating the Right to a Healthy Environment
What do children and young people in Scotland think about their right to a healthy environment? Teenagers Safiya and Oscar spoke to over 200 children to investigate this on a special mission from the Scottish Government ...
Petition handed in to Scottish Government for Human Rights Day
Today we submitted the final copy of our petition calling for an enforceable right to a healthy environment ...
This Human Rights Day, Scotland must realise the promise of the right to a healthy environment
Human Rights Day marks a key moment in human history: 10 December 1948, when representatives from across the world came together to sign the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Yet the rights it contained were incomplete ...