Motion · S4M-11484.1 · 10 Nov 2014

Human Rights

Lodged by Jackson Carlaw Amendment 0 supporters

The motion

As an amendment to motion S4M-11484 in the name of Roseanna Cunningham (Human Rights), leave out from "expresses its confidence" to end and insert "believes that human rights must be protected in a manner that promotes public confidence and remains fitting to the spirit of the convention and other international statements of rights; recalls the UK’s role in composing the convention and its status as the first nation to ratify it; acknowledges the work of David Maxwell Fyfe in the drafting of the convention, and welcomes the position of the UK as a prominent supporter of democracy, human rights and the rule of law internationally, taking real steps to end abuses of human rights around the globe."

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.