On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Government should: Align the UK Immigration Act 2016 with international human rights law, including the CRC. Improve on the United...
Government should: Review British immigration laws and ensure they are in line with the CRC. Reviewing the laws on immigration...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...
Government should: Protect people without citizenship of another country and speed up the process of granting British nationality in an...
Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...
Government should: Take action to ensure unaccompanied children who are refugees or resettled in the UK can be reunited with...
Government should: Change the law to help reunite child asylum seekers and refugees in the UK with their families. Reform...
Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...
Recent legislative and policy changes have introduced certain new safeguards on data protection, surveillance and data retention. However, questions remain...
Government should: Like other European countries, limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure children...
Government should: Ban the indefinite detention of migrants and find alternatives to detention. ncorporate a prohibition to indefinite detention of...
Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure vulnerable...
Government should: Continue promoting the rights of migrants in the UK. Continue and strengthen the promotion of the rights of...
Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Consider revising...
Government should: Develop policies to aid social integration, especially for migrants and refugees. Develop social integration policies, especially for migrants...
Government should: Guarantee the rights of refugees and migrants. Take further action to combat hate crime. Effectively guarantee the rights...
Government should: Take further action to end prejudices and punish crimes motivated by xenophobia. Continue strengthening measures to combat prejudices...
UK Government actions In August 2021, the UK Government responded to a consultation on increasing selected court fees. In July...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government introduced a Nationality and Borders Bill with the stated aims of...
Government should: Do more to end hate crime and xenophobia. Redoubling efforts and measures to combat hate crimes and xenophobia...
The UK Government has introduced some positive reforms in relation to family life, including action to tackle child marriage and...
UK Government action taken in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to decreases in homelessness and rough sleeping. Levels...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
The UK Government has taken important steps to eradicate, and enhance understanding of, modern slavery and trafficking, such as working...
The UK Government set out a number of actions to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes in the NHS Long...
UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
The UK Government’s actions to seek re-election to the UN Human Rights Council indicate a continued commitment to human rights...
The UK Government has rejected several recommendations to strengthen equality and human rights legislation, including introducing the Socio-economic Duty in...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
UK Government actions In June 2021, the UK Government committed to raise the minimum age for people to marry in...
The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...
The Welsh Government publishes and analyses some data by protected characteristic, although significant data gaps remain. Overall data gaps and...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Although rates of relative poverty have remained static for working-age adults, the number of children living in relative poverty and...
The introduction of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 (the VAWDASV Act) and the...
There have been important recent reforms to strengthen the policy and legal framework, and it will take time for their...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its new ‘Tackling violence against women and girls strategy’ for...
Government should: Strengthen laws to tackle racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes. Address racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes by...
Government should: Do more to end racism and hate speech by encouraging dialogue and cooperation between different religions and nationalities....
Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...
Government should: Ensure that women, particularly women in vulnerable situations such as disabled women, ethnic minority women, asylum-seeking and refugee...
Government should: (a) Take steps to address the low prosecution and conviction rates for domestic abuse and sexual violence. Ensure...
Government should: (a) Ensure that caseworkers properly consider statements from health professionals about torture victims and other people who are...
Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed data on asylum applications that involve torture claims and the outcomes of...
Governent should: Ratify international human rights instruments it has not yet agreed to be bound by, including the International Convention...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...
Government should: Engage with the media to eliminate images that stereotype or objectify women, take steps to end negative gender...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: (a) Introduce legal time limits on immigration detention. Ensure detention is used as a last resort and is...
Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...
Government should: Reduce achievement gaps in education, particularly among children from low income families. Take further action to avoid segregating...
Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: Increase the availability of high-quality data disaggregated by: income, sex, age, gender, race, ethnic origin, migrant, asylum-seeking and...
Government should: Consider ways to encourage migrant domestic workers to report abuse or ill-treatment to authorities, including giving migrant domestic...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: Work with parliamentarians, human rights institutions and civil society organisations to better protect ethnic and religious minorities, refugees...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Do more to end hate speech, and to help migrants integrate into communities. Adopt measures to condemn racist...
Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...
Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...
Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...
Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...
Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Revise local laws and the British Nationality Act in overseas territories to secure migrant children's right to a...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on children's right to rest, leisure, play and cultural life, ensure all...
Government should: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...
UK Government actions: In April 2022, the Elections Act gained Royal Assent. The stated purpose of the Act is to...
