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CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 27

Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.159

Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.132

Government should: End trafficking of people, women and girls especially women and girls, and support victims. Put an end to...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.134

Government should: Ensure that victims of trafficking have information about their rights and what support they can get soon after...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.146

Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.148

Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.151

Government should: Continue efforts to identify and eliminate barriers to access to health and services for persons with disabilities. Continue...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.152

Government should: Strengthen the implementation of programmes and policies for providing effective access to health care for women belonging to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.155

Government should: Ensure that women in Northern Ireland can access the same standard of safe abortion services as women in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.157

Government should: Protect and give effect to trans people’s right to health by increasing the capacity of gender identity healthcare...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.158

Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.160

Government should: Keep revising and strengthening laws to improve access to healthcare for women and girls. Continue to address and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.127

Government should: Do more to identify victims of human trafficking and forced labour, give them access to legal and psychological...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.165

Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.185

Government should: Make education, employment and healthcare easier to access for women and girls in remote rural areas. Make education,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.223

Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.258

Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.261

Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.288

Government should: Ensure that all migrants are treated in the same way when arriving in the UK, and ensure they...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.2

Government should: Ensure migrants and minority ethnic groups enjoy the right to health and a decent standard of living.  ...

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ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 21

Government should continue work to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic and sexual violence. It should ensure comprehensive...

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ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 23

Government should continue work to improve access to legal, effective, safe, confidential and equal access to abortion for women and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.129

Government should: Do more to identify victims of trafficking and support their recovery Take further steps to improve the identification...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.122

Government should: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 55

Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.169

Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 56

Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 58

Government should: Promote a full health service (including mental health) in line with the duty introduced by the Health and...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 50

Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 25

Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 59

Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 48

Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.125

Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.224

Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.166

Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...

UN recommendation

Access to healthcare – Government action

UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...

Government action

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 56

Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...

UN recommendation

Access to healthcare – UK Government assessment

Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...

Progress assessment

Access to healthcare – Welsh Government assessment

There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...

Progress assessment

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 20

Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 25

Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 40

Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 41

Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 43

Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 44

Government should: (a) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 50

Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 47

Government should: (a) Review its laws around the denial of citizenship on terrorism grounds to ensure it includes proper safeguards....

UN recommendation