The Commission recommends five concrete actions to embed a human rights based approach into creating a Fairer Scotland. Empowerment: 1. Support people throughout Scotland to know and claim their rights. Ability: 2. Introduce human rights based budgeting and budget analysis across all public spending. 3. Develop and implement integrated human rights impact assessments for all policy, practice and decision making Accountability: 4. Incorporate the rights contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into Scotland’s domestic law. 5. Align human rights outcomes with the National Performance Framework. Empowerment 1. Support people throughout Scotland to know and claim their rights. Framing poverty as a human rights issue allows people holders” - – “rights to articulate their claims as legal rights rather than aspirations. In this way a human rights based approach can provide a very powerful toolkit to
The Commission recommends five concrete actions to embed a human rights based approach into creating a Fairer Scotland. Empowerment: 1. Support people throughout Scotland to know and claim their rights. Ability: 2. Introduce human rights based budgeting and budget analysis across all public spending. 3. Develop and implement integrated human rights impact assessments for all policy, practice and decision making Accountability: 4. Incorporate the rights contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into Scotland’s domestic law. 5. Align human rights outcomes with the National Performance Framework. Empowerment 1. Support people throughout Scotland to know and claim their rights. Framing poverty as a human rights issue allows people – “rights holders” - to articulate their claims as legal rights rather than aspirations. In this way a human rights based approach can provide a very powerful toolkit to
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