A NEW festival has been announced in Glasgow celebrating human rights and the right to health.
Leading writers, filmakers, musicials and visual artists will appear alongside human rights campaigners for next month's Declaration event.
Programme highlights will include a 50th anniversary screening of Cathy Come Home, director Ken Loach's hugely influential 1966 TV play about homelessness.
Other speakers will include novelist Louise Welsh, the anti-stigma campaign See Me and Amal Azzudin of the Glasgow Girls.
It will be followed by a discussion on health, homelessness and human rights.
Event organisers said the event aims to build on the First Minister’s commitment to ‘do even more even better on incorporating human rights in Scotland’.
The festival is taking place at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow from March 3-6.
It is the result of a unique partnership between NHS Health Scotland, the Mental Health Foundation, the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) and the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.
All events are free and a limited number of day tickets can be reserved at the festival website, www.declarationfest.com.
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