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Weekly Human Rights News: 18 November 2022
This week’s news includes updates on our work in Scotland and our new co-developed resources.
News from BIHR
We were in Scotland this week
On Tuesday we delivered a workshop to the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities. The workshop covered how our Human Rights Act works in Scotland and how replacing the Act with the Rights Removal Bill would impact disabled people. We ended with how we can work together to protect our Human Rights Act.
This week, we also released our easy read letter to write to your MP. We worked with Sian and Lucy, Pembrokeshire People First members and RITES Committee members, to create this letter and it was checked by the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities. A huge thank you to everyone involved!
You can find the letter here
Our work with Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnershop
On Thursday we delivered the second of our workshops in our anticipatory care planning and human rights programme with Midlothian H…