Posted on Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Today (12/12/23) is the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a rallying call to Human Rights Defenders across the world. Inclusion Scotland has joined many others in writing to the First Minister of Scotland to tell him…
Posted on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Invitation: Online Event Wednesday 13 December 2023 10.00 to 12.00 Shaping your Human Rights Commission 2024-2028 Strategic Plan What are the biggest human rights issues affecting people and communities in Scotland? What human rights are at risk,…
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Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2023
Sunday 3rd December is International Disabled People’s Day (IDODP). Disabled Scots are still missing out, still living in poverty and still excluded from full and equal participation in our communities. Read our calls on to mark IDODP including calls for urgent…
Posted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. This new Solutions Series report by Inclusion Scotland looks at what this means for disabled people’s rights. Does regulation of AI protect and progress our human rights? Is the way that AI works building…
Read More: New Report- Disabled People’s Rights in an Artificial Intelligence World →
Posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2023
The Scottish Government published its “Programme for Government” on Tuesday (5/9/23). These are its plans for what it’s going to do in the year ahead (2023 to 2024). There are some very positive proposals in the Programme which will benefit…
Read More: Programme for Government – A bit of a mixed bag ? →
Posted on Monday, September 4th, 2023
Disabled People’s Organisations have written to the First Minister ahead of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government due out this week to ask him to take urgent action to tackle the poverty and inequalities which are blighting lives, eroding rights and…
Posted on Monday, September 4th, 2023
Up to 15 people from across Scotland are being sought to help shape the future of adult social care support in Scotland. The People-led Policy Panel project, a project run by Inclusion Scotland, is being funded by the Scottish Government…
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Posted on Monday, August 28th, 2023
Things are getting worse for disabled people in Scotland and across the UK. Read this scathing report by UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations evaluating the government’s performance seven years on from a United Nations finding of grave and systematic…
Posted on Thursday, August 10th, 2023
In this blog Bill Scott, Senior Policy Advisor and Heather Fisken, Head of Policy and Research at Inclusion Scotland write about the cost of living crisis and the devastating impact it’s having on disabled people in Scotland. When moving around…
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
The cost of living crisis continues to take an unrelenting and horrific toll on disabled people, with many struggling to survive. This must not be allowed to become the ‘new normal’ and to fade from the headlines and the political…
Read More: Disabled People, Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis – Briefing Update →
