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The builders with which you have the inspection regime are those that pay you the premium. Is that correct? It is correct that those builders pay an insurance premium.
S6W-10372 Alexander Burnett: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09767 by Mairi Gougeon on 26 July 2022, whether it will confirm the timetable for publishing the report on bird stomach contents.
S6W-10372 Alexander Burnett: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09767 by Mairi Gougeon on 26 July 2022, whether it will confirm the timetable for publishing the report on bird stomach contents.
The amendment requires corporate parents to uphold the rights of care experienced children and young people to their identity - including nationality - in line with Article 8 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill - Correspondence between Scottish Government and UN Independent Expert.
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government to the Convener of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, 15 December 2022.
And include rights for:
older people
LGBTI people
a healthy environment.
There is no specific UN Treaty on these rights.
Ensuring people have rights sounds positive, but how does it differ from the rights we already have, and why does the Scottish Government think we need a new human rights framework?
Evidence session with Engender
The Committee held an evidence session on 13 June 2019 to discuss Engender’s shadow report to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and to hear about key issues affecting women in Scotland and its view of Scotland’s progress on related concluding observations.
Dr Barnes Macfarlane made a similar point in her report for the Committee, saying that "deleting these words does not seem to strike the right tone". She noted that the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has stressed that "expressing views is a choice for the child, not an obligation".
Committee reports
Date published:
19 September 2019
Summary of the Bill
The aim of the Bill is to set, in light of the Paris Climate Change AgreementiThe Paris Climate Change Agreement is an agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change dealing with greenhouse gas emission mitigation, adaptation and finance, starting in 2020.
Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
The Scottish Government The UPR is the key method by which the United National measures how UN Members States are performing in meeting their commitments under a variety of international human rights treaties and laws.