World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna Convention and Declaration of Action, 25 June 1993, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/Vienna.aspx, in particular ‘C. Cooperation, development and strengthening of human rights’. See also K. A. Annan (1997), ‘Strengthening United Nations Action in the Field of Human Rights: Prospects and Priorities’, Harvard Human Rights Journal 10 (1), 1-9.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/PlansActions/Pages/PlansofActionIndex.aspx.
Scottish Human Rights Commission, Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights 2013-2017, p. 17, http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/application/resources/documents/SNAP/SNAPpdfWeb.pdf.
Rachel H. Murray and Elizabeth A. Mottershaw, ‘National responses to human rights judgments: The need for government co-ordination and implementation’, European Human Rights Law Review, 2012, no. 6: 639-53.
Notable exceptions are Rachel H. Murray, The Role of International Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007); Richard Carver, 'A New Answer to an Old Question: National Human Rights Institutions and the Domestication of International Law', Human Rights Law Review 10, no. 1 (2010): 1-32; and Ryan Goodman and Thomas Pegram, Human Rights, State Compliance and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Hans Thoolen and Berth Verstappen, Human rights missions: a study of the fact-finding practice of non-governmental organizations (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoof Publishers, 1986); Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, ‘Training Manuel on Human Rights Monitoring’, 2001, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/training7Introen.pdf; Philip Alston and Colin Gillespie, ‘Global human rights monitoring, new technologies, and the politics of information’, European Journal of International Law 23, no. 4 (2012): 1089–1123.
Julie A. Mertus, Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions (Stanford: Stanford Studies in Human Rights, 2009); Goodman and Pegram, Human Rights, State Compliance and Social Change; Mark Goodale, Human Rights at the Crossroads (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
The 2011-2016 and 2016-present Scottish Governments are constituted by Scottish National Party Members of the Scottish Parliament.
See, e.g., The Guardian, ‘Nicola Sturgeon: SNP will work across party lines to keep Human Rights Act’, 24 May 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/24/nicola-sturgeon-snp-work-across-party-lines-keep-human-rights-act; SNAP Human Rights Innovation Forum, 9 December 2015, http://news.scotland.gov.uk/Speeches-Briefings/SNAP-Human-Rights-Innovation-Forum-2040.aspx.
Alongside the Scotland Office of the UK-wide Equality and Human Rights Commission; https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/commission-scotland.
Scottish Commission for Human Rights Act 2006, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/16/contents.
Scottish Human Rights Commission, Annual Report 2008-2009, http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/1148/crannualreport2008-2009pdf.pdf.
Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks, ‘Measuring the effects of human rights treaties’, European Journal of International Law 14, no. 1 (2003): 182.
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