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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: Ensure any legal changes, such as a new Bill of Rights, maintain the same level of protections as...
Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...
Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...
Government should: Involve all stakeholders in the drafting and adoption of the British Bill of Rights, especially members of poor,...
Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...
Government should: Ensure any legal changes do not reduce the human rights protections provided by the Human Rights Act. Ensure...
Government should: Ensure any new human rights laws have the same legal effects and scope as the Human Rights Act....
Government should: Ensure any new Bill of Rights does not remove or weaken the current human rights protections. Ensure that...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
Government should: Ensure a new British Bill of Rights does not reduce the current human rights protections. Take all necessary...
Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...
Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...
Government should: Ensure any proposal for a new British Bill of Rights maintains and improves current human rights protections. Make...
Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...
Government should: Ensure any changes to human rights laws do not weaken human rights protections. Ensure that changes in the...
Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...
Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....
Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...
Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....
Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...
Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...
Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...
Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...
Government should: Align all laws with international human rights standards. Align its norms to the human rights based approach in...
Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...
Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
Government should: (a) Do more to protect children’s right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, including by removing parts...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...
Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...
Government should: (a) Ban corporal punishment in all settings and remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England and...
Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...
Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...
Government should: (a) Do more to deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...
Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: Agree to the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure. The Committee recommends that the State party, in...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention on...
Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...
Government should: a) Remove barriers, improve legal routes and make it simpler for all children to get residence status and...
Government should: End discrimination against same-sex couples in Northern Ireland by aligning the law with the rest of the UK....
Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Respect the principles of the UN Charter. Respect the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United...
Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
The UK Government has rejected several recommendations to strengthen equality and human rights legislation, including introducing the Socio-economic Duty in...
The Welsh Government has committed to strengthen the equality and human rights legal framework, including by considering the incorporation of...
Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies should consider removing their reservations to articles 22, 32 and 37 (c) of the CRC....
Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...
Government should: (a) Give national human rights institutions and Children’s Commissioners the powers and resources they need to monitor children’s...
Government should: (a) Hold businesses responsible for meeting legal standards, including on international and national human rights, labour and the...
Children aged 16 and 17 are not always protected as children, and marriage under the age of 18 is still...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue its work on accession...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratification of the International...
Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...
Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Governent should: Ratify international human rights instruments it has not yet agreed to be bound by, including the International Convention...
Government should: Ensure that the CAT is made part of UK law. Tell the UN about any cases in which...
Government should: Ensure that any future changes to human rights laws do not reduce the current legal protections against torture...
Government should: Consider making a declaration, in line with article 22 of the CAT, to allow the Committee against Torture...
Government should: Consult the public on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and on the proposal for a new...
Government should: Make CEDAW part of UK and devolved law without delay to ensure all women in the UK are...
Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: (a) Take further action to end all racist bullying and harassment in schools. Make schools collect data on...
Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: Review its reservations to the Convention and consider withdrawing them. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the...
Government should: Ensure CERD applies in all territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. Fully consult with the Chagossians (Îlois)...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...
Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 18 (liberty of movement and nationality). The Committee recommends that the State...
Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 24 (2) (a) and (b) on the right to inclusive education. The...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should: Withdraw all reservations to the CRC (regarding the applicability of article 22 to the Cayman Islands, article 32...
Government should: (a) Align UK laws with the CRC so it can be enforced in UK courts and people can...
Government should: Make ICESCR part of UK law. Ensure that where rights are violated, people can take legal action see...
Government should: Hold a public consultation on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, and on the proposal for a...
Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...
Government should: Bring into force the outstanding provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to tackle socio-economic inequality and end intersectional...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...
Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Develop and apply indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress on economic, social and cultural rights. Consider the UN...
Government should: Share these recommendations widely. Consult with civil society organisations in the follow-up and before submitting the UK's next...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 30 June 2021. Update its common core document. The...
Government should: (a) Consult stakeholders on how to make civil and political rights a reality for everyone in the UK....
Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...
Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. The Committee...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...
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. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider ratifying any outstanding human rights treaties. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments it had not yet...
Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Ratify the International Convention for the...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Sign and accede to the International...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...
Government should: Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...
Government should: Fully consult with civil society organisations when preparing the UK's next State Report, and in the follow-up to...
Government should: Consider ratifying the remaining human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...
Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...
Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratifying the International...
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 Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...
Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to put into practice the CRC and other human rights. The Committee...
