# Human Rights Consortium Scotland

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC050099
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** April 23, 2020
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC050099


## Contact

- **Address:** Human Rights Consortium Scotland, c/o Amnesty International, 66 Hanover Street , Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH2 1EL
- **Website:** www.hrcscotland.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We are the civil society network to defend and promote human rights in Scotland. Our members are from across Scotland. They include groups of many different identities, sizes and who campaign on different issues.  We work together to be a strong collective civil society voice on human rights for all in Scotland.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** The organisation’s purpose is the advancement of human rights, understood as the rights set out within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent UN Conventions and declarations. The organisation will do this through: •raising awareness of, and support for, human rights. •facilitating civil society organisations to promote human rights within their activities. •working for the promotion and protection of human rights in local and national law and policy making and practice •securing the enforcement of human rights law.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland






