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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: Review counter-terrorism measures and stop them having any discriminatory and disproportionate impact on racial, ethnic and religious minorities....
Government should: Protect citizens’ long-held right to peaceful protest when introducing new laws on public order. Maintain its robust tradition...
Government should: Do more to deal with antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment by publicly speaking out against hate speech and violence...
Government should: Keep taking action to ensure a gender balance in political and public life, particularly in Northern Ireland. Continue...
Government should: Ensure that any reform of the 1998 Human Rights Act does not reduce levels of protection or legal...
Government should: Do not adopt the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which stops people from being held responsible...
Government should: Speed up efforts to carry out the 20 actions recommended in the Agenda towards Transformative Change for Racial...
Government should: Do more to enforce provisional measures and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Strengthen measures to...
Government should: Ensure laws dealing with the legacy of the Troubles are in line with the UK’s human rights obligations;...
Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...
Government should: Take steps to ensure journalists are safe, investigate attacks on journalists, and put into practice the UN Plan...
Government should: Take action to stop people being detained based on their appearance or because they are members of particular...
Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...
Government should: Improve laws and policies to end and limit the increase in racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and anti-disabled crimes....
Government should: End Islamophobia and religious discrimination and intolerance. Eliminate Islamophobia and combat religious discrimination and intolerance...
Government should: Put into practice international recommendations about remove the interpretative declaration under article 4 of the International Convention on...
Government should: Do more to deal with discrimination and prejudice towards racial, ethnic and religious minorities, including Muslim minorities. Improve...
Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...
Government should: Improve laws tackling discrimination of people of African and Asian descent. Strengthen laws that combat racial profiling and...
Government should: End deep-rooted racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, and all hate crimes based on ethnic, racial, cultural or religious...
Government should: Do more to protect civil society, including removing laws that may restrict the rights of association and peaceful...
Government should: Support the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. Promote policies to support the family as...
Government should: Remove barriers in society that stop racial and ethnic minorities from enjoying the same human rights without discrimination....
Government should: Keep revising and strengthening laws to improve access to healthcare for women and girls. Continue to address and...
Government should: Introduce or amend laws to create a right for everyone to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and...
Government should: Take more action against the harmful effects of fracking, environmental pollution and climate change, so everyone can enjoy...
Government should: Take action to reach and go beyond the UK’s self-defined emission reduction targets. Fully implement and go beyond...
Government should: Do more to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, including providing enough resources for this purpose. Accelerate efforts...
Government should: Speed up and take more action to respond to climate change and ensure climate justice, in line with...
Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...
Government should: Keep improving laws and policies to ensure inclusive education for disabled children. Continue its efforts towards developing comprehensive...
Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...
Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...
Government should: Ensure that anti-trafficking laws are in line with obligations under international law, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress...
Government should: Make sure that the recent commitment that women in Northern Ireland can access abortion is put into practice....
Government should: Keep taking action to deal with the differences in experiences of ethnic groups in criminal justice, employment, mental...
Government should: Continue efforts to identify and eliminate barriers to access to health and services for persons with disabilities. Continue...
Government should: Remove structural barriers to racial and ethnic minority community, equal and non-discrimination enjoyment of human rights, including the...
Government should: Improve the way laws and institutions protect the environment, especially in light of the right to a healthy...
Government should: Introduce policies, and provide funding for, professional skills training aimed at, reducing income inequality and making more opportunities...
Government should: Keep doing more to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Continue its work on strengthening measures for the...
Government should: Make it compulsory for companies to report on gaps between the pay of different ethnic groups. Make pay...
Government should: Promise to set up a national program aimed at stopping women and girls being trafficked for sexual or...
Government should: Find and deal with gaps in hate crime laws to better tackle with racist and xenophobic speech and...
Government should: Do more to stop neo-Nazi activity, discrimination based on race or nationality, and respond properly to antisemitic incidents...
Government should: Don’t respond to one-sided economic policies of other countries. Avoid contributing to gross human rights violations of human...
Government should: Ensure that any reform to the Human Rights Act 1998 does not weaken protections or limit people’s ability...
Government should: Ensure that any reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not reduce protection or access to the...
Government should: Improve the status of ratified human rights treaties in domestic law. Enhance the status of the ratified human...
Government should: Ensure that any changes to the Human Rights Act do not reduce access to justice. Ensure that any...
Government should: Commit to continuing to incorporate ECHR rights and provisions. Commit to continued domestic incorporation of ECHR rights and...
Government should: Ensure that any laws that replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 provide at least the same level...
Government should: Fully implement and give effect to the European Convention on Human Rights in UK law. Ensure that the...
Government should: Ensure that changes to the Human Rights Act do not weaken the current level of protection. Ensure that...
Government should: Take steps to put the Istanbul Convention into practice across the UK and other UK territories. Take all...
Government should: Maintain international obligations and standards in line with the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. Maintain...
Government should: Keep the current level of protection provided by the Human Rights Act of 1998, including the rights of...
Government should: Harmonise the core human rights treaties with domestic law. Harmonize the core human rights treaties into domestic law...
Government should: Consider reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to remove the requirement for a diagnosis, “living in role” for...
Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act to remove the requirement for diagnosis and introduce a process of self-determination. Introduce...
Government should: Ensure that any future laws are as effective and broad in scope as the Human Rights Act. Ensure...
Government should: Ensure that all new laws are in line with the UK’s international human rights obligations. Ensure that all...
Government should: Reconsider replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights and commit to giving effect to...
Government should: If the Human Rights Act 1998 is replaced or reformed, maintain and improve the level of human rights...
Government should: Stop the plan to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill that gives a lower level...
Government should: Ensure that any changes to human rights laws do not reduce the level of the protection provided by...
Government should Not replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 with more limited laws, but instead keep the level of...
Government should: Continue updating action plans on tackling hate crime and put them into practice effectively. Continue updating and ensure...
Government should: Do more to end racism, racial discrimination, Islamophobia and hate crimes, including by improving laws. Strengthen efforts, including...
Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...
Government should: Act urgently to stop violence, discrimination and hate speech violating trans people’s rights and dignity; change any law...
Government should: Do more to tackle hate crime, particularly where it is motivated by race or religion. Continue to refine...
Government should: Do more to stop the increase in violent and racially motivated hate crimes and improve current policies and...
Government should: Take action against all forms of hate crime and racism, especially against people of African descent. Put in...
Government should: Deal with racial discrimination, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate crimes using the law and the justice system. Address...
Government should: Take action to deal with structural racial discrimination. Take concrete steps in addressing structural forms of racial discrimination...
Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...
Government should: Take action against public displays of racism and intolerance based on ethnicity and nationality. Take effective measures to...
Government should: Do more to tackle racism, intolerance, xenophobia, religious hatred and related crimes. Take further measures to strengthen countering...
Government should: Keep strengthening national human rights organisations, in line with the Paris Principles. Continue to strengthen the functioning of...
Government should: Ensure that national laws are in line with the international laws that deal with tackling racial discrimination. Ensure...
Government should: Do more to stop racism and discrimination on the grounds of race. Scale up efforts in ensuring the...
Government should: Develop broad policies and practices that end discrimination against minorities. Advance comprehensive policies and practices to eliminate discrimination...
Government should: Deal with negative attitudes and behaviours rooted in colonialism, and deal with the causes of racism, xenophobia and...
Government should: Take steps to address institutional racism, including by removing barriers so that minority racial and ethnic communities enjoy...
Government should: Remove barriers in society so that minority ethnic communities can enjoy human rights without discrimination. Remove structural barriers...
Government should: Keep improving approaches to tackling hate crimes, particularly against racial and religious minorities. Continue to refine its policies...
Government should: Keep taking action to stop discrimination, achieve equality and remove barriers that prevent racial and ethnic minorities from...
Government should: Take steps to combat racism, hate crimes and Islamophobia. Adopt measures aiming at combating racism, hate crimes and...
Government should: Make the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment part of law in the whole UK. Incorporate...
Immediately stop applying one sided economic policies such as sanctions against developing countries. Immediately lift unilateral coercive measures against developing...
Government should: Ensure that the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill is in line with the Stormont House Agreement and that independent...
Government should: Increase protection from sexual harassment in the workplace for disabled women and LGBTIQ workers, in line with the...
Government should: Defend and improve laws protecting the rights of asylum seekers and migrant workers in line with international law,...
Government should: Ensure that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is in line with the UK’s obligations under...
Government should: Remove the reservation to article 59 of the Istanbul Convention, so that all migrant women receive the same...
Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...
Government should: Strengthen and protect the economic and social rights of migrants. Strengthen and safeguard the economic and social rights...
Government should: Remove parts of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) that are not in line with the 1951...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...
Government should: Uphold and improve laws protecting LGBTQI+ people, especially transgender people. Uphold and strengthen legal protections for LGBTQI+ persons,...
Government should: Consider moving towards the implementation of the action plan for LGBTI people, and ban conversion practices. Consider moving...
Government should: Review immigration law so that it facilitates family reunification for unaccompanied refugee children, putting the best interests of...
Government should: Ban conversion practices for all LGBTQI+ people. Ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQI+ persons...
Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion therapy for all LGBTIQ+ people of all ages. Adopt legislation to ban all...
Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion practices in all forms and settings. Adopt legislation to ban all conversion...
Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...
Government should: Remove barriers in society so that ethnic minority communities can enjoy all human rights without discrimination. Intensify the...
Government should: Consider doing more to ensure that ethnic minorities enjoy human rights. Consider paying necessary attention to promote the...
Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Improve laws to ensure quality education for all children in education, especially disabled children. Further strengthen laws that...
Government should: Use the human rights model of disability in all laws and policies relating to disabled children and young...
Government should: Ensure migrant workers are not vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by employers and the UK visa system. Take...
Government should: Change immigration law and policy to allow for family reunification for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Amend the immigration regulations...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Raise the age of criminal responsibility, which stands at ten at the...
Government should: Ensure that refugees are not discriminated against based on how they arrive in the country. Ensure that all...
Government should: Do more to protect people from gender-based violence. Further promote efforts to protect persons from gender-based violence...
Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Move towards ratifying the International...
Government should: not send asylum seekers to Rwanda and end the Asylum Partnership Agreement, which is out of line with...
Government should: Stop the practice of detaining asylum-seekers and do not discriminate against any refugee based on how they arrive...
Government should: Ensure asylum seekers are treated in a way that is in line with the international human rights and...
Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is fully in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention. Ensure that...
Government should: Protect refugees and asylum seekers in line with international standards and conventions. Establish international refugee protection asylum seeker...
Government should: Do not return refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin and ban collective deportations. Respect the...
Government should: Stop violations of the rights of migrants and refugees. Put an end to the violation of rights of...
Government should: Meet obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and do not take any action that undermines the right to...
Government should: Amend asylum laws to explicitly allow family reunification. Amend asylum laws to explicitly provide for family reunification...
Government should: End the plan to transfer asylum seekers to other countries, which violates international law. Stop plans to transfer...
Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is implemented in line with international refugee and human rights conventions...
Government should: Halt plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories. Halt its plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories (Iran...
Government should: Improve safety in prisons; deal with problems in immigration detention, including putting a legal time limit on immigration...
Government should: Introduce a legal time limit on the detention of migrants before deportation. Introduce a general statutory time limit...
Government should: Take action to end abuse and exploitation in immigration by respecting relevant human rights standards, in line with...
Government should: Change the Domestic Abuse Act to ensure protection and support for migrant women. Revise the Domestic Abuse Act...
Government should: Do more to protect the rights of women, disabled people and LGTBI people and take action to prevent...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14...
Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...
Government should: Ensure women in rural areas have a say in policy making, responding to disasters and climate change. Ensure...
Government should: Take action to increase women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...
Government should: Keep working to update the Gender Recognition Act in line with international human rights standards, including recognising trans...
Government should: Fully put into practice the laws on female genital mutilation (FGM) and prosecute anyone responsible for carrying out...
Government should: Ensure that all domestic violence cases are fully investigated and prosecuted and that the authorities have the training...
Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights. Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...
Government should: Keep working internationally to promote and implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Continue...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...
Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...
Government should: Ensure victims of domestic violence and their families can access support and protection from further abuse. Take measures...
Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...
Government should: Update the law to end gender discrimination in employment, including pay gaps and access to fund enforcement bodies....
Government should: Ensure that women, including women from ethnic minorities are involved in decision-making at all levels. Continue measures to...
Government should: Review the Domestic Abuse Act to support and protect women and girls, whatever their immigration status is. Review...
Government should: Extend the Equality Act 2010 so that it applies in Northern Ireland and protects women there. Extend the...
Government should: Stop using human rights to justify interfering in the affairs of other countries. Stop interfering in the internal...
Government should: Deal comprehensively with the UK’s colonial legacy, including by issuing apologies and compensation for the killing of innocent...
Government should: Stop granting new permissions for new oil and gas exploration by way of an immediate moratorium. Establish an...
Government should: Keep taking action to stop UK military equipment and arms going to places where there is a risk...
Government should: Ensure that the arms sector does business responsibly, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human...
Government should: Review the laws on violence against women to protect and support women migrants, including those without access to...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Consider raising the minimum age of criminal...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at...
Government should: Pass laws to ban corporal punishment of children in every setting. Enact legislation which explicitly prohibit corporal punishment...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 across the UK. Consider raising the age...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years, in line with international standards. Raise the age of...
Government should: Consider raising the minimum age of marriage to at least 18 across the UK. Consider further measures to...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the family, to ensure that they are fully protected...
Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the...
Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Take urgent action to end corporal punishment of children and raise the age of criminal responsibility in line...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, put child justice standards into practice and ban...
Government should: Do more to integrate the Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law. Take further steps...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards, and stop the use of isolation measures...
Government should: Look at reviewing the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Evaluate revising the minimum age...
Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of...
Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action, and do more to reach net-zero emissions targets no...
Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to...
Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and do more to reach net zero no later...
Government should: Reform national laws to include protection against gender-based discrimination. Undertake the necessary reforms to include protection against gender-based...
Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act so that it is in line with international human rights standards, including by...
Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...
Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...
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: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratifying the International...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...
Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...
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: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...
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: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...
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. Ratify the International Convention for the...
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...
Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...
Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...
Government should: Make CEDAW part of UK and devolved law without delay to ensure all women in the UK are...
Government should: Review its reservations to the Convention and consider withdrawing them. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the...
Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...
Government should: (a) Consult stakeholders on how to make civil and political rights a reality for everyone in the UK....
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 30 June 2021. Update its common core document. The...
Government should: Share these recommendations widely. Consult with civil society organisations in the follow-up and before submitting the UK's next...
Government should: Develop and apply indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress on economic, social and cultural rights. Consider the UN...
Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Bring into force the outstanding provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to tackle socio-economic inequality and end intersectional...
Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...
Government should: Hold a public consultation on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, and on the proposal for a...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
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: Withdraw all reservations to the CRC (regarding the applicability of article 22 to the Cayman Islands, article 32...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 24 (2) (a) and (b) on the right to inclusive education. The...
Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 18 (liberty of movement and nationality). The Committee recommends that the State...
Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...
Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: Consider ratifying the remaining human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Fully consult with civil society organisations when preparing the UK's next State Report, and in the follow-up to...
Government should: Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. The Committee...
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: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Government should: (a) Take further action to end all racist bullying and harassment in schools. Make schools collect data on...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...
Government should: Consult the public on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and on the proposal for a new...
Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...
Government should: Consider making a declaration, in line with article 22 of the CAT, to allow the Committee against Torture...
Government should: Ensure that any future changes to human rights laws do not reduce the current legal protections against torture...
Government should: Ensure that the CAT is made part of UK law. Tell the UN about any cases in which...
Governent should: Ratify international human rights instruments it has not yet agreed to be bound by, including the International Convention...
Government should: Ensure that any amendments to the law provide the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention on...
Government should: Agree to the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure. The Committee recommends that the State party, in...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...
Government should: (a) Do more to deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...
Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...
Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: (a) Ban corporal punishment in all settings and remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England and...
Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...
Government should: (a) Do more to protect children’s right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, including by removing parts...
Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...
Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...
Government should: a) Remove barriers, improve legal routes and make it simpler for all children to get residence status and...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to put into practice the CRC and other human rights. The Committee...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Consider...
Children aged 16 and 17 are not always protected as children, and marriage under the age of 18 is still...
Government should: Take steps to allow individual complaints under UN human rights treaties such as the Convention against Torture and...
Government should: Ensure that any future human rights laws comply with the duty under the Good Friday Agreement to fully...
Government should: Ensure that the British Bill of Rights provides the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...
Government should: Bring all legislation on communication surveillance in line with international human rights standards; ensure all communications surveillance is...
Government should: Ensure the proposed Bill of Rights does not weaken the Human Rights Act 1998. Take necessary measures to...
Government should: Remain committed to fully putting into practice the European Convention on Human Rights. Remain committed to fully implement...
Government should: remain a member state of the Council of Europe and party to the European Convention on Human Rights....
Government should: Continue efforts to submit overdue State Party Reports to UN treaty bodies. Continue efforts to ensure the submission...
Government should: Remove the declaration about interpretation of article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Take steps to ratify the...
Government should: Consider withdrawing the reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Consider...
Government should: Remove reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Withdraw reservations to...
Government should: Consider withdrawing the declaration about interpretation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All...
Government should: Allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on alleged human rights violations in the UK, as in article...
Government should: Withdraw the declaration about the interpretation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All...
Government should: Continue reviewing the reservations on ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to ensure everyone can play a part...
Government should: Ratify international human rights instruments that are not yet ratified; allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Ratify the Optional Protocol...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
Government should: (a) Hold businesses responsible for meeting legal standards, including on international and national human rights, labour and the...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...
Government should: Ensure a new British Bill of Rights does not reduce the current human rights protections. Take all necessary...
Government should: Ensure any new Bill of Rights does not remove or weaken the current human rights protections. Ensure that...
Government should: Ensure any legal changes, such as a new Bill of Rights, maintain the same level of protections as...
Government should: Ensure any new human rights laws have the same legal effects and scope as the Human Rights Act....
Government should: Ensure any legal changes do not reduce the human rights protections provided by the Human Rights Act. Ensure...
Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...
Government should: Involve all stakeholders in the drafting and adoption of the British Bill of Rights, especially members of poor,...
Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...
Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...
Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...
Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
Government should: Align all laws with international human rights standards. Align its norms to the human rights based approach in...
Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...
Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...
Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...
Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...
Government should: Ensure any proposal for a new British Bill of Rights maintains and improves current human rights protections. Make...
Government should: (a) Give national human rights institutions and Children’s Commissioners the powers and resources they need to monitor children’s...
Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...
Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...
Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies should consider removing their reservations to articles 22, 32 and 37 (c) of the CRC....
The Welsh Government has committed to strengthen the equality and human rights legal framework, including by considering the incorporation of...
The UK Government has rejected several recommendations to strengthen equality and human rights legislation, including introducing the Socio-economic Duty in...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...
Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Respect the principles of the UN Charter. Respect the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United...
Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: End discrimination against same-sex couples in Northern Ireland by aligning the law with the rest of the UK....
Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...
Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...
Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...
Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...
Government should: Ensure any changes to human rights laws do not weaken human rights protections. Ensure that changes in the...
Government should: Keep putting into practice the recommendations of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Continue its efforts...
