Supported by: Liz Smith*, Alexander Stewart*, Jeremy Balfour*, Peter Chapman*, Margaret Mitchell*, Graham Simpson*, Graeme Dey*, Edward Mountain*, Gordon Lindhurst*, Emma Harper*, Murdo Fraser*, Richard Leonard*, Claudia Beamish* *S5M-05606 Christina McKelvie: UN Investigation of UK Government That the Parliament — understands that, subsequent to the UN Human Rights Committee report of 7 November 2016, which it believes criticised the UK Government for systematic human rights abuses in the UK, “ ” further investigation by the UN has resulted in hundreds of UK campaign groups, charities and organisations submitting evidence, which includes views that the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would undermine and erode human rights and pose a threat to “ ” “ ” previous UN rulings in this area; notes concerns that, following the EU referendum, ethnicity- related hate crime reportedly rose by 57%, and that the UK Government has failed to address the pervasive issues of violence against women and girls, gender inequality and child poverty, as well as making little progress on dealing with discrimination; understands that investigators from the UN will look at the impact of austerity, mass surveillance, poverty, racism and press freedoms, and believes that reforms to welfare have seen a regression in the welfare system s ability to tackle ’ poverty, with a negative impact on vulnerable social groups, and that the consistent responses from the third sector show that the UK Government must urgently look at the UN reports and investigations and rectify the ongoing errors that it considers have been undertaken, as well as change the policy of austerity that it believes has failed the people of the UK while negatively affecting the standing of the UK in the world.