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Scotland


Status of International legal instruments protecting the right to food and nutrition (signatory, ratification):

Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, and thus party to the conventions signed by the United Kingdom

  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 16th Sept 1968 – 20th May 1976
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 22nd July 1981 – 7th April 1986
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 11th Oct 1966 – 7th March 1969
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 19th Apr 1990 – 16th Dec 1991
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Not Ratified
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

For more information visit the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)