THE disintegration of the Bute House Agreement and resignation of the First Minister have been the main focus for many, but the last week also saw…
THE disintegration of the Bute House Agreement and resignation of the First Minister have been the main focus for many, but the last week also saw the passing of the Rwanda Act.
It found that, in the last year, the UK Government “continued to pursue a policy agenda that breached its international human rights commitments and curtailed human rights protections”.
Empowering both people and communities across the country, it is a bill that could mark out Scotland’s position as a genuine world leader on human rights. But that trajectory is not guaranteed., there is a natural uncertainty about what the Scottish Government, whatever new shape it takes and whoever leads it, will prioritise in the coming weeks and months.
Even following the breakdown of the Bute House Agreement, we witnessed the spectre of the rights of trans and non-binary people being used as part of political bargains – political bargains aimed not at strengthening those rights but purely focused on diminishing them. Instead, whatever happens in the coming days or weeks, there must be no wavering in the Scottish Government’s commitment to the Human Rights Bill or to progressing human rights in the widest possible sense.What cannot change is the Scottish Government’s commitment to bringing forward the Human Rights Bill; a bill that has such enormous capacity to change the everyday lives of people across our communities.
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