Human Rights Support Solutions 2023: Our Impact

My Life My Choice is a self-advocacy organisation for adults with a learning disability. Their vision is a world where people with a learning disability are treated without prejudice and can have choice and control over their own lives.

Together with My Life, My Choice, we have produced an accessible resource for people with learning disabilities who have been placed in long stay hospitals either unnecessarily or for too long. It aimed to inform them about what rights they have and how to use them to challenge their stay.

Families in Trauma and Recovery was set up by a husband-and-wife team who found themselves dealing with a traumatic family situation, but with little experience of how to handle it, and without knowing where to turn for support. They offer a range of services to the public including Trauma informed Peer to Peer and Emotional CPR and focus on recovery in contrast to traditional approaches.

Together with Families in Trauma and Recovery, we have produced a resource for families, including parents and children, that have experienced trauma and are trying to navigate the system to receive care and support using the language of human rights.

Fair Justice System for Scotland is a grassroots-focused organisation that advocates for justice sector reforms that create more racial diversity and inclusion in the Scottish justice system.

Together with Fair Just System for Scotland, we produced a resource for people struggling with access to services in Scotland largely failing the Black African community. The resource aims to provide practical examples of human rights breaches and how to use frameworks to make sure rights are respected.

All Wales People First is the united voice of self-advocacy groups and people with learning disabilities in Wales. They want to ensure that people with learning disabilities in Wales, can have access to self-advocacy support so that they are able to voice choice and control.

They also want to ensure that people with learning disabilities understand their rights, especially their Human Rights.

Together with All Wales People first, we produced an accessible resource that tells people with learning disabilities about their human rights and how to use them so that they can advocate for themselves and others.

The Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fights for rights and justice. We co-curate campaigns using anti-oppression practices to create transformational change, extending beyond the individual impact on migrants’ lives, to tackle oppression at its source.

Together with Migrants’ Rights Network, produced a practical guide on human rights that is geared towards asylum seekers in accommodation who can sometimes have their rights neglected whilst in these situations.