Stay Up Late Scotland wants to make Scotland's vibrant late-night scene more inclusive of disabled Scots 

FED UP of calling time on their nights out at 9pm, campaigners want to make Scotland's vibrant late-night music scene better for those who often have to leave before the night is over because of accessibility challenges. 

Scottish Women’s Awards declines to name the organisation running the event amid concerns over transparency

WOMEN’S CHARITIES and a BBC journalist nominated for awards at the Scottish Women’s Awards will not attend over a lack of transparency about the event, being held at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow next month by profit-making organisers ‘Creative Oceanic’.

STUC members spoke to CommonSpace about collective responses to mental health ahead of their event exploring the issue

AS MENTAL HEALTH Awareness Week (14-20 May) generates discussion about the stigma associated with mental health issues, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is calling for greater attention to the structural causes and collective solutions to poor mental health.

The STUC equality committees will host a day of discussions, workshops and information sessions on Saturday 19 May, based around the idea that ‘We’re All in This Together’.

Official statistics show differences in health, wellbeing, and safety linked to people’s demographics and where they live

Class, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation remain strong indicators of inequalities in issues such as health, mental wellbeing and confidence in the police in Scottish communities.

Legal and human rights experts raise concerns that those on low incomes are disadvantaged by Scottish Government’s legal aid budget 

Campaign for inclusive education recognised at Icon Awards 

Experience of student whose abuse led to suicide to be used as training model

Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis draw from research and writing on families and relationships to question Tory patriarchal politics and to examine what an equal, enabling and supportive relationship looks like

Leigh Wilson says the world is moving backwards and progressive voices across the spectrum must find unity

FROM a historical perspective it can often appear, somewhat erroneously, that we are now living in an enlightened period of liberal sanctity. 

Relativity is nonetheless crucial to judging this, and, were it not for the seismic global events of the past two years, this claim may be more convincingly substantiated. In the context of recent tectonic changes, though, it seems as if we are regressing more than we care to admit.

LGBT activists are seeking to make it easier for trans people to change their legal gender

THE Equality Network and Scottish Trans Alliance are urging the Scottish Parliament to make three key changes to the Gender Recognition Act (2004) to support trans people in Scotland.

The campaign was launched in 2014 by Scottish Trans Alliance, which is the Equality Network project to promote equality and inclusion based on gender identity and gender reassignment.