Our Rights Stories

This year, the theme is Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All.   We talk about the value of these principles and how they have inspired and still inspire movements for change for a more equal and inclusive world of benefit to everyone.  We have asked staff members, colleagues and partner organisations including Making Rights Real, HRCS and PILS to share what these principles mean to them and their work to protect human rights across UK.   We also interviewed our founders, Jen, Andy and Kirsty to discover more about the story beyond our organisation and what means putting human rights into law in Scotland.

Centre (SWRC), Nicola Mooney, Advocacy Worker, and Constance Trepanier, Legal Caseworker.  In this episode we highlight which kinds of resources the SWRC has produced and produces to support survivors of gender-based violence and how important it is to train solicitors, police officers, and support workers on how to have a trauma informed approach when liaising with victims/survivors.   We also speak about our dedicated weekly immigration advice surgery, staffed by solicitors from our Scottish Refugee & Migrant Centre in collaboration with the team at the SWRC, to provide a holistic service when survivors call for information.

Today’s episode is a special one, because we talked about the calls to action of the #16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and how organisations, institutions and individuals play a key role in ending violence against women and girls.

This episode features our trainee solicitor Eilidh, who speaks about her experience as a trainee at JustRight Scotland through the Justice First Fellowship scheme delivered by The Legal Education Foundation.

This episode features the kind of services the team is delivering with a focus on their current projects and their holistic and trauma-informed approach.

Today we talk with Maria McCloskey, PILS Director, and Emma Cassidy, Senior Engagement Lead at PILS about what PILS is and what the team does, how the staff members take on new projects and develop them to help and support communities across Northern Ireland, how important strategic cases are as they impact not just one person but a number of people in our society and how the UK Government’s hostile environment policies are negatively affecting people and above all, children, in Northern Ireland.

In this latest episode - created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team, we are focusing on digital learning, how to set up personalised training and how transformative and impactful learning can be.

We talk with the team about their work, their current projects, their holistic and trauma-informed approach to help and support survivors of trafficking and exploitation.

Every year the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) welcomes students from the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic as interns.

This is part 3 of our Scotland’s Human Rights Bill series of the Our Rights Stories podcast created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team.