Children’s Human Rights in Scotland

With Scotland incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law--30 years after the United Kingdom ratified the Convention—there’s no better time to work together to realise children’s rights in Scotland, and to draw on global lessons as we do so.  We’re hugely enthusiastic about other human rights innovations ahead in Scotland as well, with a commitment to domestically incorporating 4 further international human rights treaties. We know children’s rights are just the start of a stronger human rights approach in Scotland.  

Inspiring Children’s Futures is excited to be a founding partner of the Observatory for Children’s Human Rights in Scotland. The Observatory is a collaboration of Scottish organisations working to drive the implementation of children’s human rights in Scotland, with local impact and global learning. As part of our work with the Observatory, we were delighted to advise and support the ‘Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to COVID-19 in Scotland’   

We’re excited to announce that our Visiting Professor Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, will be Visiting Professor In Residence at the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures throughout the first half of 2022.  

We are also helping to inform understandings of the impact of the UNCRC’s incorporation to Scotland with a new and related Learning Report in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law - ‘Beyond Participation: The UNCRC and Children’s Socio-Economic Rights in Scotland’ due out soon! It will be available here

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