If we are to establish a national right to food, what can the history of other countries’ attempts tell us? Sean Bell takes a look.
FOOD defines humanity, and determines life. Hunger cannot be argued with. It is a historical truth and a global reality – and Scotland is no exception.
The Home Office is attempting to deport an elderly couple to Iran, despite having built a life in the UK for over 40 years and acting as co-parents to a grandchild requiring care
Report argues Brexit “poses a clear risk of regression in terms of human rights”
FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s advisory group on human rights has published its recommendations, proposing an Act of the Scottish Parliament which would partly fill the “significant gap in the protection of rights in Scotland” once Britain leaves the EU.
Theresa May has been humiliated for the Tories culpability in the injustice of Apartheid South Africa – but will history look upon those who back the Israeli state’s oppression of Palestinians today any better?
Activist launches new campaign to push for prisoner voting rights after facing stigma of her brother’s imprisonment
A NEW campaign, Ballots Behind Bars, will host its first event in Edinburgh tonight (17 July) exploring the case for extending the right to vote to prisoners.
Behind the campaign is Amie Robertson, who battled “shame and mental distress” when her brother was incarcerated during her teenage years.
President Quim Torra will also be meeting with representatives of the SNP, the Scottish Greens, Scottish Labour and the STUC
CATALAN PRESIDENT QUIM TORRA has voiced his solidarity with the exiled former Catalan minister and St Andrews academic Clara Ponsati ahead of her extradition hearing on 30 July, hours before Torra’s meeting with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Ahead of the IMF’s conditionality review, trade unions, think tanks and anti-poverty campaigners call for a new approach that prioritises human rights and sustainable development
OVER 50 civil society organisations, prominent academics, economists, global networks, anti-poverty campaigners and women’s groups have issued a joint call for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to dramatically rethink a lending policy that has demanded austerity, held down wages, undermined labour movements and threatened human rights.
Kamil family’s MP Paul Sweeney says the case is revealing of “systemic failure in the immigration system”
THE Kamil family has been granted indefinite leave to remain after a hunger strike outside immigration offices in Glasgow last week, ending their 18 year ordeal trying to get citizenship in the UK.
The hunger strike started last Wednesday (27 June) evening and lasted over 24 hours, before immigration officers offered the family a meeting with their lawyer today [5 July], set to take place at 11am.
A ruling in Belgium has cancelled arms sale licences to Saudi Arabia over concerns they would not be used for ‘self-defence’
FOLLOWING A Belgian judicial body’s decision to suspend the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, UK-based campaigners say it’s time for Theresa May’s government to follow suit with a human rights based approach.
Family have spent the past 24-hours without food or water outside Border and Immigration offices.
A FAMILY have taken to hunger striking to pressure the Home Office to take a decision on their right to remain in Scotland after 18 years of waiting.