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.

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.

The United States has long defined its enemies as ‘rogue states’. Is the world starting to realise that Trump’s America fits the bill?

UNTIL the advent of the Trump administration, the idea that the US could be a rogue state was counter-intuitive to the common wisdom of mainstream political discourse in the West. The US accused such troublesome nations of that tag; the republic commonly regarded as the last remaining superpower could not, by definition, become one itself.

Pride organisers call out lack of local benefit and unethical production concerns in LGBT charity’s Primark partnership

RETAIL GIANT Primark’s Pride range, which will donate 20 per cent of profits to LGBT charity Stonewall UK, has come under fire after it emerged that the products will be manufactured in Turkey, China and Myanmar – all of which have poor LGBT rights records.