The Centre for Human Right's submission to the inquiry by the Joint Committee on Human Rights has been published today. The inquiry is looking at the steps the Government has taken to monitor compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

The Centre's submission argues that there are significant concerns about the practice of human rights reporting by UK (and other) multinational corporations, and that UK government is not doing enough to stimulate more transparent, robust and cohesive practice. Other submissions to the inquiry can be found here.

Centre Co-Director, Dr. James Harrison will be speaking at an event in Edinburgh entitled "Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments: making them work for you" on 1 October in Edinburgh. The event is designed to explore how Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EQHRIA) can be used as tools that can help any organisation, whether public, voluntary or private to improve the lives of the people of Scotland. For more inormation about the event click here.

Dr. Harrison will be talking about the The 10 Good Practice Building Blocks which he designed to assist public authorities and those carrying out public functions in Scotland to undertake equality and human rights impact assessments (EQHRIAs) that will lead to better outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve. You can find out more about those building blocks here.

The Centre has recently published a report entitled 'Building Blocks for Improving Human Rights Education within Initial Teacher Education in Scotland' (Centre for Human Rights in Practice, University of Warwick, 2015).