Human Rights Tracker Scotland launched

Scotland’s implementation of IMPACT OSS

Human Rights Tracker Scotland launched

Last week the Scottish Government launched the Human Rights Tracker Scotland, a custom version of IMPACT OSS we developed to bring together over 500 recommendations from six UN treaty bodies relevant to the devolved policy areas in Scotland.

The online launch event featured opening remarks by Kaukab Stewart, Minister for Equalities, and contributions by Marie-Eve Boyer-Friedrich from OHCHR, Hussein Patwa, co-chair of SNAP2, and Jan Savage, Executive Director of the Scottish Human Rights Commission. The event concluded with a brief demonstration highlighting the Tracker’s key features and functionality.

The first phase of the Human Rights Tracker provides a publicly accessible database of more than 500 recommendations that were previously housed across different reports, platforms and formats, enabling the public, civil society, NGOs and parliamentarians to explore and filter recommendations by theme, human rights issue and affected group. With the aim of further enabling strategic and coordinated action in devolved areas, the Scottish Government has indicated that it will consider including actions taken and progress reports in future phases, further strengthening transparency and accountability.

The Human Rights Tracker Scotland is the third official implementation of IMPACT OSS, complementing Samoa’s Sadata) and New Zealand’s Human Rights Monitor. It is the first implementation for a regional government, demonstrating how IMPACT OSS can be adopted beyond the UN member state level. This customised version features a bespoke theme with custom logo and graphics and also includes significant accessibility improvements for admin users which we are looking forward to making available to the other implementations soon.

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