This week’s human rights news includes our work with Scottish Recovery Consortium and an explanation of the new deal between the UK and Rwanda.  News from BIHR We hosted our first Rights in Recovery Leadership sessions with Scottish Recovery Consortium We’ve been working with Scottish Recovery Consortium to create a free leadership programme to advance awareness on rights-based addiction recovery in Scotland. The programme has been co-developed with people with lived experience working directly with people in recovery. Click here to read more about the Rights in Recovery programme. On Thursday 21st April and Friday 22nd April, we ran our first sessions and had great feedback from our participants, who told us it made them feel “empowered”, “passionate” and “motivated”. We continued our work with NHS Trusts on human rights in health and social care Our Human Rights Officer, Annie, met with health and social care workers to talk abou…

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