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New Human Rights Bill
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Plans to introduce world-leading human rights legislation have been announced by Equalities Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.
Subject to the outcome of the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary election, a new Human Rights Bill will incorporate four United Nations Human Rights treaties into Scots Law, including legislation that enhances human rights for women, disabled people and minority ethnic communities. The new Bill, which will be introduced in the next parliamentary session will include specific rights, subject to devolved competence, from:
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
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Prisoners serving less than 12 months in Scotland retain their right to vote thanks to a 2020 Holyrood act HUMAN rights groups have hit out at a Tory motion aiming to strip the right to vote from people serving prison sentences of less than a year.
Tories say their proposal, to be debated in the Holyrood chamber this afternoon, aims to stop the SNP making “it easy for prisoners to vote from the comfort of their cells”. Scottish Conservative justice spokesperson Liam Kerr said the plans to give some prisoners a vote in this year’s Holyrood elections are “shameful”. However, human rights groups have said the Tory motion serves no purpose , and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has repeatedly ruled that a blanket ban on prisoner voting is unlawful.