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A Human Rights Bill for Scotland
This is our submission to the Scottish Government consultation on a human rights bill which proposes to incorporate four UN treaties, including CEDAW, into Scots law. The consultation document...
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Reclaiming Motion on the Statutory Guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act – Grounds of Appeal and Note of Argument
Ahead of our reclaiming motion (appeal) in the Court of Session Inner House on Wednesday 4th October we are now able to publish our written submissions to the court....
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UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women: a case study in the Scottish courts
The following report examines how the Scottish Government performed in its commitment to the incorporation of the United Nations CEDAW treaty by examining our first judicial review where we...
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Male on an all-women shortlist
We have sent the following letter to the Chair of the SNP’s National Executive Committee and Humza Yousaf, the leader of the SNP. It has been brought to our...
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Ministerial Code of Conduct complaint
We are publishing this correspondence to place it on the record. The Scottish Government approved the Gender Recognition Reform Bill for introduction to Parliament at a Cabinet meeting on...
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Letter to Police Scotland re assault in Aberdeen
We sent the following letter to Iain Livingstone, Chief Constable and Emma Bond, Deputy Chief Constable at Police Scotland following their decision not to charge a transactivist who assaulted...
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Scotland’s Women Gather 2023
Elect Her is holding what should be a fantastic women’s event at the Scottish Parliament on 24th June to celebrate and encourage women into politics. Unfortunately, many women have...
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School Toilets
Despite clear legislation on the requirement to provide single-sex toilets in schools many local authorities across Scotland are replacing these with mixed-sex (gender-neutral) facilities, often without prior consultation with...
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Judicial review appeal
Last year we brought a judicial review on changes the Scottish Government had made to the statutory guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act which meant males who...
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Withdraw the ‘Supporting transgender young people in schools’ guidance from Scottish schools
This is our submission to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee who are considering petition PE2001 calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to withdraw...