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 ...
New briefing calls for urgent reform to Scotland’s legal aid system
A new briefing, jointly authored by ERCS, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and JustRight Scotland, calls for urgent reform to improve Scotland's civil legal aid system and increase access to justice ...
June newsletter
Check out our June newsletter. Read our latest news and book our next Lunchtime 101 webinar ...
New scrutiny exposes Scotland’s failings ahead of UN environmental justice deadline – press release
Time is running out for the Scottish Government to meet a UN environmental justice deadline according to a new scrutiny by ERCS, which brings to light a series of failings ...
Campaigners warn that Scotland’s climate plans are ‘doomed to fail’ without robust public scrutiny – press release
The Scottish Government will likely repeat failures that resulted in the ditching of 2030 climate targets unless better scrutiny mechanisms are introduced in the next Climate Change Plan ...
ERCS is recruiting a Solicitor (Partner)
We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated environmental lawyer to help us establish Scotland’s only law centre for environmental justice ...
