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UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government introduced a Nationality and Borders Bill with the stated aims of...
Government should: Review the Trade Union Act 2016. Ensure all workers enjoy full trade union rights without interference. Implement the...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...
Government should: (a) Take action to increase the number of women in decision-making roles in the workplace and reduce women's...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and protecting child victims. Continue strengthening the positive measures taken to combat the crime...
Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: (a) Increase the number of women in decision-making roles, in public and private sectors. (b) End the gender...
Government should: Review its employment policies to address the root causes of unemployment. Develop an action plan focusing specifically on...
Government should: (a) Reduce the use of temporary employment, precarious self-employment and 'zero-hours' contracts. Create opportunities offering security and protection...
Governent should: Consider UN advice on the right to just and favourable working conditions. The Committee draws the attention of...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
Government should: Extend the national living wage to under 25s. Set it at a level which provides workers and their...
Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: Tackle discrimination against women, particularly in the labour market, and the gender pay gap. Address the problem of...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...
Government should: (a) Improve efforts to investigate claims of human trafficking, prosecute perpetrators and ensure that victims obtain compensation. Consider...
Government should: Consider ways to encourage migrant domestic workers to report abuse or ill-treatment to authorities, including giving migrant domestic...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Fully investigate cases of human trafficking and punish the perpetrators. Investigate thoroughly incidents of trafficking in human beings...
Government should: Strengthen the National Referral Mechanism to identify and support human trafficking victims. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to...
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: Continue combating human trafficking and all forms of slavery. Continue efforts to fight human trafficking and all forms...
Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...
Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...
Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...
Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its health and disability green paper to explore how the...
In recent years, the employment rate has increased overall, employment rates have improved for some, but not all, ethnic groups,...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government responded to the Women and Equalities Select Committee consultation on sexual...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published the National Disability Strategy, which included plans to reduce the...
UK Government actions In March 2021, as part of its Build Back Better plan for growth and 2021 Budget, the...
UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...
UK Government actions: In April 2022, the Nationality and Borders Act received Royal Assent. It includes changes to the identification...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...
Although rates of relative poverty have remained static for working-age adults, the number of children living in relative poverty and...
Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the UK, with no significant improvements in people’s outcomes over recent years....
The UK Government has made commitments to ensure fair conditions at work, including to tackle sexual harassment. However, it has...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The Welsh Government has...
There are persistent barriers affecting disabled people’s right to live independently as part of the community. The UK Government has...
Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The employment rate in...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
The UK Government has introduced some measures to increase the employment of certain protected characteristic groups, including in specific sectors,...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...
Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...
Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Collect disaggregated employment and activity data on people from ethnic minority groups. Take further steps to tackle unemployment,...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...
