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PRELIMINARY UN report findings suggest Scotland’s legal system is breaching international law by making environmental and human rights cases prohibitively expensive.
The draft decision from the UNECE Aarhus convention compliance committee confirms a lack of progress in meeting the convention’s requirements, which guarantees everyone the right to go to court to defend the environment.
Scotland’s legal system has repeatedly been found in breach because of the high cost of taking legal action, with judicial reviews often running into the hundreds of thousands of pounds.
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
