On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: Provide information on the impact of the national strategy on gender-based violence (particularly with regard to violence against...
Government should: Take a joined-up approach to preventing violence against women and girls, including harmful practices. Ensure a holistic approach...
Government should: Introduce policies to prevent trafficking in women and girls. Guarantee a fair trial to victims of trafficking. Adopt...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking in women and girls. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to identify...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking (specifically of women and girls), and to support and rehabilitate victims. Strengthen...
Government should: Monitor the implementation of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, including its affect on combating trafficking in women and...
Government should: Do more to tackle violence against women and girls. Exert more efforts to combat or to counter violence...
Government should: Adopt laws, especially in Northern Ireland, to tackle domestic violence. Ensure all cases of domestic violence are fully...
Government should: Combat violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Combat violence against women and girls, in particular...
Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Continue tackling discrimination and violence against women and girls. Continue efforts to combat discrimination on any ground and...
Government should: Continue efforts to tackle domestic violence throughout the UK. Continue its positive efforts to reduce domestic violence throughout...
Government should: Tackle violence against women. Take further action to combat sexual exploitation and sexual crimes against children. Effectively fight...
Government should: Take further action to tackle domestic violence. Take steps to protect children from the negative impacts of domestic...
Government should: Strengthen laws in relation to forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Strengthen its legislative framework by including penal...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its new ‘Tackling violence against women and girls strategy’ for...
There have been important recent reforms to strengthen the policy and legal framework, and it will take time for their...
Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....
Government should: Take action to tackle violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, by: (a) prioritising introducing domestic...
Government should: (a) Take steps to address the low prosecution and conviction rates for domestic abuse and sexual violence. Ensure...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...
Government should: Fully implement its laws on female genital mutilation (FGM) and take further measures to prosecute people who carry...
Government should: (a) Ensure that vulnerable women can access employment opportunities, housing and social security so they don't need to...
Government should: (a) Do more to encourage girls to study non-traditional subjects and courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics;...
Government should: (a) Ensure the law provides for 'no-fault' divorce and introduce a requirement that all religious marriages, including Islamic...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated quickly and...
Government should: (a) Urgently implement the Stormont House Agreement, which was adopted by the British and Irish Governments and the...
Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
The introduction of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 (the VAWDASV Act) and the...
