Join us online for our event, “Healthcare is a Human Right”
Read on about this online event, and click here to register to attend!
Date and time
Thursday, February 27 · 6 – 7:30pm GMT
Location
Online – Teams
About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
Online event (on Teams)
Thursday January 2025, 6pm-7.30pm
“Women don’t feel safe anymore. It’s barbaric. We don’t matter up here. That’s what it feels like.”
Human rights defender
Women in North Highlands have been raising significant concerns about lack of access to safe and accessible reproductive and maternity healthcare, since the downgrading of provision at Wick Hospital in 2016. A recent Scottish Human Rights Commission’s report found that “more than 14,000 patients per year now have to travel [to Inverness] for routine, emergent, and acute cases, with no risk assessments for patient safety.”*
Join us at this online event where we will
- Hear from local campaigners about their fight for accessible healthcare
- Learn about the human right to healthcare
- Discuss how duty bearers can be held accountable
- Discuss how can you support this campaign.
There will be time for questions and discussion about your own experiences and for questions.
This event has been organised by North Highland Women’s Wellbeing Hub (NHWWH), Making Rights Real and the Scottish Women’s Convention.
This event is open to all.
If you have any access needs to participate, please tell us at the time of booking.
www.northhighlandwwh.com
Making Rights Real – Using rights to improve communities
If you have any queries, please contact lorraine@makingrightsreal.org.uk
*Scottish Human Rights Commission report available here: ESC rights in the Highlands and Islands | SHRC Spotlight Projects