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Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...
Government should: End trafficking of people, women and girls especially women and girls, and support victims. Put an end to...
Government should: Ensure that victims of trafficking have information about their rights and what support they can get soon after...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...
Government should: Continue efforts to identify and eliminate barriers to access to health and services for persons with disabilities. Continue...
Government should: Strengthen the implementation of programmes and policies for providing effective access to health care for women belonging to...
Government should: Ensure that women in Northern Ireland can access the same standard of safe abortion services as women in...
Government should: Protect and give effect to trans people’s right to health by increasing the capacity of gender identity healthcare...
Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...
Government should: Keep revising and strengthening laws to improve access to healthcare for women and girls. Continue to address and...
Government should: Do more to identify victims of human trafficking and forced labour, give them access to legal and psychological...
Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...
Government should: Make education, employment and healthcare easier to access for women and girls in remote rural areas. Make education,...
Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...
Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...
Government should: Ensure that all migrants are treated in the same way when arriving in the UK, and ensure they...
Government should: Ensure migrants and minority ethnic groups enjoy the right to health and a decent standard of living. ...
Government should continue work to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic and sexual violence. It should ensure comprehensive...
Government should continue work to improve access to legal, effective, safe, confidential and equal access to abortion for women and...
Government should: Do more to identify victims of trafficking and support their recovery Take further steps to improve the identification...
Government should: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...
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: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...
Government should: Promote a full health service (including mental health) in line with the duty introduced by the Health and...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...
Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
Government should: (a) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...
Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...
Government should: (a) Review its laws around the denial of citizenship on terrorism grounds to ensure it includes proper safeguards....