[1] It has an office in Edinburgh, which is shared with the fellow SPCB supported bodies the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman and the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland.

The Commission has a strong international profile and participates in the Universal Periodic Review reporting mechanisms for UN treaty processes.

[19][22] In 2021 the Scottish Government and the Commission jointly began to prepare to convene a Leadership Panel to finish development work, and appointed a Secretariat Lead to support this.

[26] In February 2010 the Commission published a comprehensive human rights framework to address historic child abuse through an Acknowledgement and Accountability Forum.

The Commission worked with the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland to deliver a series of InterActions with to develop an Action Plan on Justice and Remedies.

In January 2010 the Commission piloted human rights training for staff within the Services for Communities Division of the City of Edinburgh Council.

In 2013 the Commission piloted a joint Equalities and Human Rights Impact Assessment with two partner organisations, Fife and Renfrewshire Councils.

[3] The conference agreed the Edinburgh Declaration, which sets an action plan for NHRIs on business and human rights.

[33] The Commission has said the proposals would 'weaken the protections in the Human Rights Act and put the UK in breach of its international obligations.

'[34] Along with several Scottish civil society organisations, the Commission condemned the Bill claiming it is unneeded and a step backwards.

[35] The Commission is one of over 80 NHRIs within the ICC's global network supported by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

[38] In June 2009 the Commission was appointed a member of the UK's independent mechanism responsible for promoting, monitoring and protecting the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.