Last Meeting
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Merchants House, Glasgow
‘One Year on from CERD Concluding Observations 2024’, with Prof Angela O’Hagan – Chair, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Background
The Ethnic Minority Race, Equality and Human Rights Network evolved from the EM National Resilience Network (EMNRN).
In March 2020 the EMNRN was formed to respond to the social, economic, health, cultural and welfare challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 2020 and May 2023 the EMNRN responded strategically to communities needs by:
- Developing community and rights holder intelligence on what was occurring in communities
- Acting a platform of solidarity and support to engage Scottish Government and other key duty bearers such as the NHS, Public Health Scotland and Police Scotland
- Provided practical service provision and capacity support via emergency sustenance fund, digital transition fund, tackling loneliness and isolation, multilingual mental health support. Research commissioning and vaccine inclusion and information fund.
As the Scottish Government has continued its transition from emergency health response back to core race, equality and human rights work EMNRN members have engaged in a consultation period with the network secretariat BEMIS Scotland to assess how best the network can respond to the present policy landscape.
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Previous Meetings
16 September 2025 – Glasgow – BEMIS
‘One Year on from CERD Concluding Observations 2024’, with Prof Angela O’Hagan – Chair, Scottish Human Rights Commission
30 April 2025 – Stirling – CSREC
10 December 2024 – Glasgow – BEMIS
6 November 2024 – Glasgow – BEMIS
12 June 2024 – Aberdeen – GREC
25 March 2024 – Stirling – CSREC
Members
- Aberdeen Climate Action
- Aberdeen Hindu Association
- Aberdeen Interfaith
- Aberdeen Mosque & Islamic Centre
- ABWT
- ACVO (third sector interface for Aberdeen)
- Africa Global Community Project LGBTQ
- African and Caribbean Elders in Scotland (ACES)
- African and Caribbean Women Association
- Amina MWRC
- Amma Birth Companions
- Ando Glaso
- BEMIS Scotland
- Call it Out
- CCAA
- CEMVO Scotland
- Central Advocacy Partners
- Citizens Rights Project
- Crookston Community Group
- CSREC
- CVS Falkirk & District
- Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association
- East and Southeast Asians Scotland
- Edinburgh Diwali
- Falkirk HSCP
- Feniks
- Fife Migrants Forum
- Forth Valley Indian Association
- Forth Valley Migrant Support Network
- Freedom from Torture
- Garnethill Hebrew Congregation
- GREC
- Heart for the City
- Hope Project Scotland
- HSTAR
- Human Rights Consortium Scotland
- Inspiring Families Development Network Scotland (INFADENS)
- Inspiring Scotland
- Interfaith Aberdeen
- International Women’s Group
- ISCC
- Jhankar Beats
- Kairos Women+
- LGBT Unity
- Maryhill Integration Network
- Masjid e Imam Ali (ع)
- Milan Senior Welfare Organisation
- Multi-Cultural Family Base
- Najra Helping Hands
- NESCAN Hub
- NHS Grampian
- NHS Grampian
- Nikkan Dance Academy
- No Recourse North East Partnership
- Outside the Box
- Progress in Dialogue
- respectme, Scotland’s Anti-Bullying Service
- Romano Lav
- School for CEOs
- SCoJeC
- Scottish Hindu foundation
- Scottish Inter-cultural Association (SIA)
- Scottish Somali Friendship Society
- Scottish Yemeni Society
- Seventh-day Adventist Church/ WECC
- Sharpen Her: the African Women’s Network
- Shelter Scotland
- Sikh Sanjog
- Somali United Network
- The Datakirk
- The Irish Voice
- The Mission / Shared Futures
- Turning Point Scotland – Fair Way Scotland
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Stirling
- Voluntary Health Scotland
- Volunteering Matters
- Wasp Community Foundation
- Women in Action
- Women’s Integration Network
- WSREC
- YouthLink Scotland