POLLY VIZARD
Research Fellow, LSE

This presentation will focus on a recent project commissioned by the EHRC and the SHRC to develop a ‘Human Rights Measurement Framework’ (HRMF). The HRMF is a new system (or “tool”) for evaluating the human rights position of individuals and groups in England, Scotland and Wales. The system comprises: a set of panels (the HRMF ‘conceptual grid’), a set of indicators (the ‘HRMF indicator set’) and a broad evidence base comprising both qualitative indicators (such as case law outcomes) and quantitative indicators (such as the number of suicides in custody). The presentation will provide an overview of the Framework as well as discussing how it has been developed and agreed through a process of consultation with human rights stakeholders, regulators and inspectorates, subject experts and NGOs, building on both the Human Rights Act and on international good practice relating to the development and application of indicators for human rights monitoring purposes (as set out by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights). The presentation will contribute to reflection on some of the broader themes of the day such as the role of the EHRC as a NHRI and the transmission of international human rights norms, the role of the EHRC in promoting the domestic human rights framework, and the strategic objective of embedding a ‘culture’ of human rights in England, Scotland and Wales.