Our Rights Stories

Today’s episode is a part two of our special conversation with Kairos Women+, a community-led women’s space for all women and non-binary people across Renfrewshire and beyond.  

While speaking with Katy Wilson-Scott, senior coordinator, and Abril Flores Rojo, project worker, about their incredible projects, we found out more about:  

• Kairos Museum and their collaboration with Paisley Museum around the Women's Guild,  

• and their innovative work with our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre by providing feedback through a lived expertise panel on the accessibility’s level of their services when it comes to access and inclusion and the barriers that women might face.  

Visit Kairos Women+’s website to read their latest news: Kairos Women+ – Renfrewshire's community-led women's space—collaboratively creating opportunities for women via workshops, events and courses. 

Today’s episode is a part one of a special conversation with Kairos Women+, a community-led women’s space for all women and non-binary people across Renfrewshire and beyond. We talk about their collaborative, intersectional and innovative participatory approach.  

What does it mean? We speak with Katy Wilson-Scott, senior coordinator, and Abril Flores Rojo, project worker, who highlight: 

• The value of collaboration  

• The role of an active and engaged local community 

• The lived expertise panel 

Want to find out more? Visit Kairos Women+’s website and explore their latest resources: Kairos Women+ – Renfrewshire's community-led women's space—collaboratively creating opportunities for women via workshops, events and courses. 

Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a set of universal, indivisible and inalienable rights, recognizing the equal dignity and worth of every person.  

Listen to our special episode to learn more and download our resources below:  

Partner organisations:  

Human Rights Consortium Scotland – Civil society network to protect human rights in Scotland (hrcscotland.org)  

Making Rights Real – Using rights to improve communities  

Our Team - The PILS Project (pilsni.org)  

Our team: Our Team - JustRight Scotland  

Our centres: What we do - JustRight Scotland  

Our landmark legal case who changed the law for migrant students in Scotland now accessing free education: Access to Higher Education for migrant students is now a real right (justrightscotland.org.uk)  

Our work on Access to Justice: Access to Justice - JustRight Scotland 

Our campaign on the Scottish Human Rights Bill: Scotland’s Human Rights Bill: the right to an effective remedy is essential to the new framework - JustRight Scotland  

How you can support our work to defend and extend people’s rights: Donate - JustRight Scotland  

As part of our #16 Days of Activism campaign against Gender-Based Violence, we continue our conversation with staff members from the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC), Nicola Mooney, Advocacy Worker, and Constance Trepanier, Legal Caseworker. 

In this episode we highlight which kinds of resources the SWRC has produced and produces to support survivors of gender-based violence and how important it is to train solicitors, police officers, and support workers on how to have a trauma informed approach when liaising with victims/survivors.  

We also speak about our dedicated weekly immigration advice surgery, staffed by solicitors from our Scottish Refugee & Migrant Centre in collaboration with the team at the SWRC, to provide a holistic service when survivors call for information.  

Lastly, we talk about the training the SWRC provides on topics such as sexual harassment, gender-based violence and domestic abuse; and we point out that all the work the SWRC does is informed by lived experience panels, which are part of current strategy the centre is working on.  

You can find out more about the services and resources provided by the SWRC on their website: Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk) 

Training’s details are available here: Training | Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk)  

More information on the immigration advice surgery here: Advice surgeries | Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk) 

What are the root causes of gender-based violence? And what’s the difference between economic and financial abuse?  

Today’s episode is a special one, because we talked about the calls to action of the #16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and how organisations, institutions and individuals play a key role in ending violence against women and girls. 

We speak with our Senior Associate Solicitor at the Scottish Women’s rights Centre (SWRC) Lyndsay Monaghan and Jenn Glinski, researcher and expert on domestic abuse with unique expertise in economic abuse and banking.  

- investing in organisations which provide services for women survivors of gender-based violence; 

- committing to structural reform of our legal aid system to address systemic barriers women face to accessing justice  

- increase awareness of all forms of gender-based violence including coercive control and economic abuse 

Want to find out more?  

Visit our SWRC’s website and explore the latest resources: Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk) 

https://www.scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk/resources/Economic-Abuse-final.pdf 

This episode features our trainee solicitor Eilidh, who speaks about her experience as a trainee at JustRight Scotland through the Justice First Fellowship scheme delivered by The Legal Education Foundation. 

Eilidh has been working across all our legal centres learning more about legal processes and procedures, court cases and legal surgeries. She also developed new skills and worked on different projects including her latest work on the Incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into the Scottish law.  

Want to learn more? Read our resources: 

UNCRC Implementation Fund - JRSKnowhow 

https://uncrc.scot/  

Make Human Rights Justice a Reality report 

https://www.justrightscotland.org.uk/2022/08/my-first-6-months-as-legal-trainee-and-justice-first-fellow/ 

We are also recruiting for a new Trainee Solicitor (Justice First Fellowship). You can apply here: Work with Us - JustRight Scotland 

This is part 2 of our Scottish Anti-Trafficking & Exploitation Centre (SATEC) episode of the Our Rights Stories podcast created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team.    

This episode features the kind of services the team is delivering with a focus on their current projects and their holistic and trauma-informed approach.   

Scottish Anti-Trafficking & Exploitation Centre - JustRight Scotland 

Today we talk with Maria McCloskey, PILS Director, and Emma Cassidy, Senior Engagement Lead at PILS about what PILS is and what the team does, how the staff members take on new projects and develop them to help and support communities across Northern Ireland, how important strategic cases are as they impact not just one person but a number of people in our society and how the UK Government’s hostile environment policies are negatively affecting people and above all, children, in Northern Ireland.  

To learn more about their recent cases, find out more about their next steps and listen to the PILS podcast, visit their website: 

PILS Project - Public Interest Litigation Support Northern Ireland (pilsni.org)  

In this latest episode - created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team, we are focusing on digital learning, how to set up personalised training and how transformative and impactful learning can be.  

We talk with Laura and Ricarda about the role of our social enterprise JRS Knowhow, the work the team is doing to improve people's understanding of rights and equalities across Scotland and to help organisations better understand what this approach means for their day-to-day job, and why it is so important across sectors and communities in Scotland.   

Our digital consultancy specialises in learning and social justice and the team has recently launched their online Craftivism Origami Box which you can check out here: https://jrsknowhow.org/shop/ 

Want to learn more about their other innovative projects? Click the below links: 

• JRS Knowhow website: https://jrsknowhow.org/ 

This episode features our Scottish Anti-Trafficking & Exploitation Centre (SATEC) which is the only specialist legal project in Scotland that provides direct legal advice and representation to child and adult survivors of trafficking and exploitation in Scotland regardless of nationality, gender, type of exploitation and geographical location. 

We talk with the team about their work, their current projects, their holistic and trauma-informed approach to help and support survivors of trafficking and exploitation.  

Stay tuned for Part 2 - coming soon!   

Useful links: 

Scottish Anti-Trafficking & Exploitation Centre - JustRight Scotland  

Legal Factsheets - JustRight Scotland