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Government should: (a) Put disabled people's rights into practice across the UK, and make the CRPD part of UK (and...

Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...

Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...

Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...

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

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure to allow children who feel their rights...

Government should: Always video record interviews with child victims/witnesses during investigation. Permit the interviews as evidence in court. The Committee...

Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...

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...

Government should: Provide, in the UK's next State Report, updated and detailed information on the steps being taken to combat...

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) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...

Government should: Ensure CERD applies in all territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. Fully consult with the Chagossians (Îlois)...

Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...

Government should: Set a legal time limit for immigration detention. Ensure detention is used only as a last resort, and...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...

Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Ensure members of ethnic minorities can access fair and effective legal aid across the UK and in all...

Government should: Introduce policies to prevent trafficking in women and girls. Guarantee a fair trial to victims of trafficking. Adopt...

Government should: Adopt laws, especially in Northern Ireland, to tackle domestic violence. Ensure all cases of domestic violence are fully...

Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...

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

Government should: Continue negotiating transitional justice issues in Northern Ireland, and put into practice transitional justice elements of the Stormont...

Government should: Provide coroners with all necessary resources to conduct prompt and impartial investigations into deaths linked to the Northern...

Government should: Consider aligning its corporate criminal liability law with international human rights law. Ensure UK companies operating abroad are...

Government should: To guarantee justice for all, ensure appropriate legal aid is available, particularly for the most marginalised groups in...

Government should: Speep up the investigation into allegations of British military personnel involvement in the ill-treatment of civilians and detainees...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...

Government should: Take action to combat racism and hate crimes. Ensure victims can access redress and compensation. Adopt measures aimed...

Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...

Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...

Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...

Government should: Investigate the disproportionate number of black people and people of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system across...

Government should: (a) Investigate all reported racist hate crimes, prosecute perpetrators and provide remedies for victims. (b) Collect disaggregated data...

Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....

Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...

Government should (a) Ensure Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee appropriately balances security interests against accountability for human rights violations. Consider...

Government should: (a) Urgently investigate events in Northern Ireland to prosecute perpetrators of human rights violations (in particular the right...

Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...

Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...

Government should: Consider UN advice on the right to social security. The Committee draws the attention of the State party...

Government should: (a) Review conditions attached to social security benefits. Reverse the cuts introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012...

Government should: Review the Trade Union Act 2016. Ensure all workers enjoy full trade union rights without interference. Implement the...

Government should: Review legal aid reforms to ensure everyone has access to justice and, where needed, free legal aid (especially...

Government should: Take action to tackle violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, by: (a) prioritising introducing domestic...

Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...

Government should: Consider UN advice on business and economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee draws the attention of the...

Government should: (a) Set up clear regulations to ensure companies operating in the UK do not infringe economic, social and...

Government should: Make ICESCR part of UK law. Ensure that where rights are violated, people can take legal action see...

Government should: (a) Align UK laws with the CRC so it can be enforced in UK courts and people can...

Government should: Consult disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure all disabled children get an inclusive education in their own communities....

Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...

Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop programmes to make judges, prosecutors, police officers and prison staff...

Government should: Do more to prevent and put an end to racism and xenophobia, including in the media and on...

Government should: (a) Introduce legal time limits on immigration detention. Ensure detention is used as a last resort and is...

Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...

Government should: (a) Urgently implement the Stormont House Agreement, which was adopted by the British and Irish Governments and the...

Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...

Government should: (a) Ensure that the parents or guardians of intersex children receive impartial counselling and psychological and social support....

Government should: (a) Improve efforts to investigate claims of human trafficking, prosecute perpetrators and ensure that victims obtain compensation. Consider...

Government should: (a) Take steps to address the low prosecution and conviction rates for domestic abuse and sexual violence. Ensure...

Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed data on asylum applications that involve torture claims and the outcomes of...

Government should: Consider changing the law to ensure that all victims of torture are able to access remedy and obtain...

Government should: (a) Consider creating a specialist unit in the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service to strengthen the use...

Government should: (a) Take urgent steps to provide redress, including compensation and rehabilitation, for victims identified by the Historical Institution...

Government should: (a) Promptly investigate cases of paramilitary violence, including against children, in Northern Ireland. Ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted...

Government should: (a) Improve training for government officials who make decisions about statelessness. Carry out regular reviews of the officials’...

Government should: (a) Ensure any limits on fair trial guarantees for national security reasons (such as court hearings held without...

Government should: Immediately set up an inquiry into alleged acts of torture and ill-treatment of detainees held overseas committed by,...

Government should: Set up an independent public inquiry to investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment by UK staff in Iraq...

Government should: (a) Continue to improve conditions and reduce overcrowding in prisons and other detention facilities, including through the use...

Government should: (a) Ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated quickly and...

Government should: Collect and publish disaggregated data on all complaints and reports of torture or ill-treatment received by government authorities....

Government should: Ensure that women, particularly women in vulnerable situations such as disabled women, ethnic minority women, asylum-seeking and refugee...

Government should: Within one year, give an update on plans to implement the UN's recommendations on accountability for conflict-related violations...

Government should: (a) Review laws on intercepting and storing personal communications in line with the ICCPR, including article 17. Any...

Government should: (a) Raise the age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. Follow international standards for juvenile justice. (b)...