In December 2014, Professor Aoife Nolan, Joint Head of the HRLC Economic and Social Rights Unit, gave a presentation on 'Human Rights Budget Analysis' to the Scottish Government Equality Budget Advisory Group. This Group's remit is to help shape the Government's equality approach to the Budget. The Scottish Government is committed to exploring with the Equality Budget Advisory Group how it might embed human rights considerations more explicitly within future Equality Budget Statements in the longer term. (Details of the current approach of the Government in this area are provided in its Equality Statement Draft Budget 2015-16). Professor Nolan's presentation was designed to contribute to the Group's work on human rights budgeting.
Professor Nolan's presentation was based on her extensive experience in relation to human rights and budgets, including her recent books in this area, Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2013) and Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations (London: Routledge 2014).
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