Our pick of human rights news stories from the past week. News From BIHR Explainer: JHRC report on the detention of young people with learning disabilties and/or autism he Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on the detention of young people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The report condemns the “horrific reality” of conditions and treatment under which many young people with learning disabilities and autism are detained in mental health hospitals, “inflicting terrible suffering on those detained and causing anguish to their distraught families”. BIHR Briefings and Explainers Brexit Blog: The Impact of Brexit on human rights in Scotland Part of a series of expert blogs commenting on how Brexit may affect human rights in a variety of sectors. This contribution is from Mhairi Snowden, Coordinator of the Human Rights Consortium Scotland looks at the impact Brexit may have on human rights in Scotla…

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