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UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Government should: Take action to prevent suicides, including suicides and self-harm in custody, by: (a) tackling the root causes of...
Government should: (a) Remove laws allowing people to be detained and treated without their consent on the basis of their...
Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...
Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...
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: Amend its abortion law. Guarantee women's right to reproductive and sexual autonomy without legalising selective abortion due to...
Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...
Government should: Amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland in line with women's rights to health, life and dignity. Consider UN...
Government should: Urgently amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland. Extend exceptions to the abortion ban to include cases of rape,...
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should: Implement the Committee's previous recommendations on abortion law in Northern Ireland, in line with provisions in the Good...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
Government should: (a) Provide enough resources to effectively implement the Female Offender Strategy for England and Wales and ensure that...
Government should: Ensure that all women and girls in the UK, including Northern Ireland, can access abortions in situations where...
Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...
Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...
Government should: Provide reproductive health care for all women and girls, in line with CEDAW. Government should: Provide reproductive health...
Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
UK Government actions In December 2020, NHS England published revised guidance on visitor restrictions in maternity units during the coronavirus...
Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...
UK Government actions: In June 2022, the UK Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. This aims...
UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...
Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish data on psychotropic drugs (Ritalin, Concerta etc.) prescribed to children. (b) Ensure drugs are...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
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: Ensure older people receive an adequate pension, care and treatment. Educate all health care workers on the rights...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Take steps to ensure people belonging to ethnic minorities have full access to quality health care. Take steps...
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: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
