Links
This section highlights some links to other organisations which you might find useful.
This isn’t designed to be a comprehensive list of links on everything to do with human rights; rather it’s a list of things which we find useful or interesting. Inclusion here does not imply that the content of these sites has been checked and McIlwhan Consulting bears no responsibility for external websites.
Statutory bodies
- Scottish Commission for Human Rights – no website yet, covers devolved human rights issues
- Equality and Human Rights Commission covers all equality issues in Scotland, and reserved human rights issues. Operates an equality and human rights helpline in Scotland.
- Scottish Information Commissioner covers Freedom of Information in Scotland
- UK Information Commissioner covers all UK Freedom of Information issues and all data protection issues
- Scottish Children and Young People’s Commissioner covers young people’s rights as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Scottish Public Services Ombudsman covers complaints about public services in Scotland, including the NHS, local and central government, housing associations and most other public authorities
- Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
International Bodies
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights provides information about the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and links to all the UN Human Rights Treaties
- United Nations
- Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner provides information about the work of the Human Rights Commissioner
- Council of Europe
Sources of information or advice
- CAS / CABx (you can find your local CAB from this website)
- Scottish Government Human Rights Unit
- STUC information on trade unions and employment
- ACAS information on employment and arbitration and conciliation
- Doughty Street provides free human rights bulletins with digest of recent cases
- Human Rights Education Associates provides a range of online and distance learning human rights courses
- Office of the Public Stationers provides details of all Scottish and UK laws
Publications & Journals
Generally the following journals are some of the useful sources of information on human rights:
- European Human Rights Law Review
- European Human Rights Reports
- Scottish Human Rights Journal
- Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
- Scolag
Here are a few specifics articles or publications which may be of interest or use in relation to human rights:
- Taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights, Philip Leach, Blackstones
- Basic Documents on Human Rights, Ian Browlie, Oxford University Press
- Civil Liberties Case and Materials, S Bailey, D Harris & B Jones, Butterworths
- Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, D Harris, M O’Boyle, C Warbrick, Butterworths
- Human Rights Act Toolkit, Jenny Watson & Mitchell Woolf, Legal Action Group
- Blackstones Public Law and Human Rights, Peter Wallington & Robert Lee, Oxford University Press
- Taking Case to Strasbourg
- London School of Economics Human Rights Department
- Scott Blair Blog
Human Rights Campaigning Organisations in Scotland
- Amnesty International
- Oxfam
- Friends of the Earth Scotland
- Poverty Alliance
- Equality Network
- Scottish Refugee Council
- Positive Action in Housing
Human Rights Campaigning Organisations Elsewhere
