IN-DEPTH: Scotland’s Adoption of UN Child Rights Will Undermine Parents Say Campaigners

Critics say the law is a ’trojan horse' which separates children from the family unit.

First Minister Humza Yousaf at the launch of a policy paper on citizenship in an independent Scotland, at the National Records Of Scotland in Edinburgh. Dated July 27, 2023. Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

MSPs have backed plans to embed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scottish law, however, campaigners warn it will “undermine parents and empower the state.”

On Thursday, the Scottish government passed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) Bill.