On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: Do more to investigate any allegation of misconduct by the UK military or support investigations of others into...
Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...
Government should: (a) Develop compulsory training for public officials that covers the content of the CAT. (b) Ensure that all...
Government should: Take steps to prevent torture in any territory under the effective control of the State, not only in...
Government should: Set up an independent public inquiry to investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment by UK staff in Iraq...
Government should: Immediately set up an inquiry into alleged acts of torture and ill-treatment of detainees held overseas committed by,...
Government should: Review the ‘Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas,...
Government should: (a) Consider creating a specialist unit in the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service to strengthen the use...
Government should: Consider changing the law to ensure that all victims of torture are able to access remedy and obtain...
Government should (a) Ensure Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee appropriately balances security interests against accountability for human rights violations. Consider...
Government should: Fully apply the ban on refoulement (forcibly returning people to countries where they are likely to be persecuted),...
Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...
Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....
Government should: To protect the right to life, carefully assess selling arms to countries where they are likely to be...
Government should: Consider including in the UK's next State Report what steps have been taken to identify risks of genocide,...
Government should: Speep up the investigation into allegations of British military personnel involvement in the ill-treatment of civilians and detainees...
Government should: Consider aligning its corporate criminal liability law with international human rights law. Ensure UK companies operating abroad are...
Government should: Protect indigenous people's right to self-determination in their home territories, in line with the UN Charter. Enable indigenous...
Government should: Stop evicting indigenous people from the territories they occupy. Stop the forced evictions of indigenous peoples in the...
Government should: Within one year, give an update on plans to implement the UN's recommendations on accountability for conflict-related violations...
Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...
The UK Government has continued to seek to limit its accountability for responding to allegations of human rights abuses and...
Investigate members of the British military who have committed serious crimes in overseas military operations, including killing civilians, torture and...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on human rights abuses...
Government should: (a) Reduce the number of deaths of infants and children, including among boys in the Overseas Territories; address...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: Run an independent investigation into ‘whitewashing’, where war crimes by members of the British armed forces abroad may...
Government should: End the situation where British military forces are protected from being held responsible for war crimes and other...
Government should: Stop using ‘fighting terrorism’ to justify violating Syrian sovereignty; bring back to the UK any UK nationals who...
Government should: Stop UK nationals from travelling to other countries as terrorist fighters. Prevent the flow of new waves...
Government should: Stop all forms of support for terrorism, including fundraising on UK territory. Stop all forms of involvement in...
UK Government actions In April 2021, the UK Parliament passed the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act, first introduced...
Government should: Stop using human rights to justify interfering in the affairs of other countries. Stop interfering in the internal...
Government should: Stop using the justice system for the theft of the 31 tons of gold belonging to the Venezuelan...
Government should: Keep working with the Media Freedom Coalition to defend media freedom at home and abroad, and improve the...
Government should: Don’t respond to one-sided economic policies of other countries. Avoid contributing to gross human rights violations of human...
Immediately stop applying one sided economic policies such as sanctions against developing countries. Immediately lift unilateral coercive measures against developing...
Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...
Government should: Introduce laws on doing business in areas where conflicts are taking place; advise businesses on respecting human rights...
Government should: Ensure that financial institutions and other businesses are respectable and accountable, in line with the recommendations of the...
Government should: Deal comprehensively with the UK’s colonial legacy, including by issuing apologies and compensation for the killing of innocent...
Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...
