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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: Deal with all issues related to the Chagos archipelago through inclusive talks with all concerned. Resolve all outstanding...
Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...
Government should: Ensure women in rural areas have a say in policy making, responding to disasters and climate change. Ensure...
Government should: Ensure that changes to tax and benefits policies do not have disproportionately negative effects on older women. Apply...
Government should: Ensure victims of domestic violence and their families can access support and protection from further abuse. Take measures...
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: Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling wars and conflicts. Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling and...
Government should: Keep working internationally to promote and implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Continue...
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 financial institutions and other businesses are respectable and accountable, in line with the recommendations of 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 the arms sector does business responsibly, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...
Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights. Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...
Immediately stop applying one sided economic policies such as sanctions against developing countries. Immediately lift unilateral coercive measures against developing...
Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...
Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...
Government should: Introduce a digital inclusion strategy for children and young people to promote online safety and sustainable inclusion. Develop...
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 in line with international standards, and stop the use of isolation measures...
Government should: Consider banning solitary confinement of juveniles. Consider prohibiting the use of solitary confinement for juveniles...
Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...
Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...
Government should: Ensure that all domestic violence cases are fully investigated and prosecuted and that the authorities have the training...
Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and do more to reach net zero no later...
Government should: Introduce a national anti-poverty strategy and end child poverty. Develop a comprehensive nationwide anti-poverty strategy and eliminate child...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, put child justice standards into practice and ban...
Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...
Government should: Take diverse actions to prevent violence against women, including improving reporting systems, increasing conviction rates and providing targeted...
Government should: Take action to increase women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...
Government should: Promote gender equality and ensure women are free from all discrimination and violence. Promote gender equality and ensure...
Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...
Government should: Don’t respond to one-sided economic policies of other countries. Avoid contributing to gross human rights violations of human...
Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the...
Government should: Support the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. Promote policies to support the family as...
Government should: Ensure that workplaces are inspected to make sure conditions are good and to prevent discrimination. Strengthen the labour...
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: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...
Government should: Take steps to ensure journalists are safe, investigate attacks on journalists, and put into practice the UN Plan...
Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...
Government should: Do more to protect civil society, including removing laws that may restrict the rights of association and peaceful...
Government should: Keep working with the Media Freedom Coalition to defend media freedom at home and abroad, and improve the...
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: Take steps to reduce rates of racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination faced by people of African descent...
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: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...
Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...
Government should: Introduce or amend laws to create a right for everyone to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and...
Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...
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 ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...
Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...
Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...
Government should: Make sure that the recent commitment that women in Northern Ireland can access abortion is put into practice....
Government should: Strengthen the implementation of programmes and policies for providing effective access to health care for women belonging to...
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: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...
Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...
Government should: Put the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into practice by introducing a strategy to end...
Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the family, to ensure that they are fully protected...
Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...
Government should: Review and change its laws, including the Public Order Act 2023, to ensure people can enjoy their right...
Government should put in place or improve its policies and plans for tackling racial discrimination and racial inequality in all...
Government should: Implement the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions' recommendations to ensure its National Human Rights Institutions follow...
Government, including devolved governments and overseas territories and Crown dependencies, should: (a) Put in place comprehensive anti-discrimination and equality laws...
Government should: Review and repeal any laws that lower human rights protections in line with the CERD. Any changes to...
Government should: Ensure the devolved governments collect and publish similar statistics the rights of ethnic minority groups in all areas...
Government should: (a) Ban the physical punishment of children. Remove the common law defence of 'reasonable chastisement' and strengthen promotion...
Government should: Work harder to improve access to justice by providing free legal aid to all who cannot afford it....
Government should: Take strong action to stop racist paramilitary violence and intimidation against minorities and migrants, especially in Northern Ireland....
Government should: (a) Quickly remove laws, including in the Illegal Migration Act 2023, that discriminate against migrants and that seek...
Government should increase efforts to ensure conditions in detention align with international human rights standards, including the United Nations Standard...
Government should, in line with the Human Rights Committee's general comment No.36 (2018): (a) Make sure that laws and procedures...
Government should: Quickly review the 2019 Principles Relating to the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees. It must update them to...
Government should continue work to improve access to legal, effective, safe, confidential and equal access to abortion for women and...
Government should continue work to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic and sexual violence. It should ensure comprehensive...
Government should: (a) Do more to end all racial and ethnic discrimination. This includes in particular systemic discrimination against Gypsies,...
Government should take all actions necessary to prevent and combat racist hate crimes and hate speech. In particular, Government should:...
Government should: Take effective measures to prevent and combat racism and racial discrimination, hatred and violence in sports. It should...
Government should: Keep putting into practice the recommendations of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Continue its efforts...
Government should: (a) Strengthen action to ensure quality education for ethnic minority children, especially Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children; children...
Government should: Give effect to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (adopted in September 2001 by the World Conference...
Government should: (a) Work harder to acknowledge past wrong and raise awareness of colonialism and the trafficking of enslaved people....
Government should: Make sure the CERD applies to all its territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. It should fully...
Government should: Take all action necessary to tackle the causes and legacy of forced assimilation faced by Gypsy and Traveller...
Government should: Accept and implement all recommendations from the 2020 Windrush Lessons Learned Review. It must do all it can...
Government should: Ensure ethnic minorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the overseas territories and Crown dependencies have fair...
Government should: (a) Effectively address structural inequalities and discriminatory barriers in social factors that influence health outcomes, including climate change...
Government should: Take steps to combat the discrimination and inequalities faced by ethnic minorities, to remove barriers to rights and...
Government should: Take all steps to ensure affordable, adequate housing for ethnic minority households, including social housing. It should also...
Government, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic...
Government should: (a) Revise laws and policies and stop using practices that cause particular impact among ethnic groups. This includes...
Government should: Revise the Contest and Prevent counter-terrorism strategies, including the "prevent duty". This should be done to eliminate any...
Government should: (a) Take steps to ensure stop and search powers are used in a lawful and fair way and...
Government should: Take all necessary steps, including reviewing and amending the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the...
Government, including in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the overseas territories and the Crown dependencies, should: Increase its action to improve...
Government should: Implement the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions' recommendations to ensure that its National Human Rights Institutions...
Government should: Do more to protect people from gender-based violence. Further promote efforts to protect persons from gender-based violence...
Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people to ensure that they can have decent work and equal pay....
Government should: Consider doing more to ensure that ethnic minorities enjoy human rights. Consider paying necessary attention to promote the...
Government should: Consider moving towards the implementation of the action plan for LGBTI people, and ban conversion practices. Consider moving...
Government should: Ban conversion practices for all LGBTQI+ people. Ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQI+ persons...
Government should: Keep fighting the discrimination faced by transgender people by expanding the planned ban on conversion practices to include...
Government should: Keep promoting equal political, social and economic rights for ethnic minorities, especially women and girls. Continue efforts to...
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: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...
Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people, to ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal...
Government should: Use the human rights model of disability in all laws and policies relating to disabled children and young...
Government should: Introduce new ways to improve food security, in particular for young children, adolescents and disabled people. Advance measures...
Government should: Provide support for disabled people in rural areas. Provide support accessible to people with disabilities at the rural...
Government should: Do more to protect the rights of women, disabled people and LGTBI people and take action to prevent...
Government should: Introduce an employment policy specifically for disabled people. Develop an effective employment policy, specifically designed for people with...
Government should: Increase formal employment opportunities for women and disabled people, and ensure equal pay for work of equal value....
Government should: Increase protection from sexual harassment in the workplace for disabled women and LGBTIQ workers, in line with the...
Government should: Remove parts of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) that are not in line with the 1951...
Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...
Government should: Improve conditions in detention centres for asylum seekers, in line with international human rights standards. Improve humanitarian conditions...
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: Protect refugees and asylum seekers in line with international standards and conventions. Establish international refugee protection asylum seeker...
Government should: Ensure that refugees are not discriminated against based on how they arrive in the country. Ensure that all...
Government should: Do not return refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin and ban collective deportations. Respect the...
Government should: Ensure that asylum seekers are detained only as a last resort, and introduce a maximum legal detention period....
Government should: Halt plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories. Halt its plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories (Iran...
Government should: Ensure that all migrants are treated in the same way when arriving in the UK, and ensure they...
Government should: Strengthen and protect the economic and social rights of migrants. Strengthen and safeguard the economic and social rights...
Government should: Improve safety in prisons; deal with problems in immigration detention, including putting a legal time limit on immigration...
Government should: Take action to end abuse and exploitation in immigration by respecting relevant human rights standards, in line with...
Government should: Stop violations of the rights of migrants and refugees. Put an end to the violation of rights of...
Government should: Change immigration law and policy to allow for family reunification for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Amend the immigration regulations...
Government should: Ensure migrant workers are not vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by employers and the UK visa system. Take...
Government should: Ensure that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is in line with the UK’s obligations under...
Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...
Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures and stop them having any discriminatory and disproportionate impact on racial, ethnic and religious minorities....
Government should: Take action to stop people being detained based on their appearance or because they are members of particular...
Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...
Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...
Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....
Government should: Remove its interpretative declaration on CERD article 4. The Committee also reiterates its recommendation that the State party...
Government should: Ensure governments across the UK and all overseas territories routinely collect and publish data disaggregated by ethnicity in...
Government should: Share the UK's report to the UN and the Committee against Torture's recommendations widely, through official websites, the...
Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...
Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...
Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed information about all deaths in custody and the causes of those deaths....
Government should: Set out in law the role and powers of the United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and its...
Government should: Use the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to help implemement the provisions of CEDAW. The Committee calls...
Government should: Share the recommendations of the Committee widely across all levels of government and public bodies, as well as...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on the rights of rural women: (a) Take action to...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...
Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...
Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities. Review and strengthen current policies and initiatives...
Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...
Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...
Government should: Do more to end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...
Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....
Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...
Government should: Involve civil society in decision-making processes, particularly regarding putting the present recommendations into practice. Listen to British human...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...
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: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...
Government should: Continue to tackle money laundering and tax evasion, particularly in its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and assess...
Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...
Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
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: 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: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...
Government should: Establish and fund a structure for focal points to coordinate the implementation of CRPD across the UK. The...
Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...
Government should: (a) Produce a thorough plan for reducing the risk of disasters. Develop strategies to ensure disabled people can...
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: Embed the rights of disabled women and girls into disability and gender equality policies. Fully consult on this...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Promptly update the UK Department for International Development’s Disability Framework and...
Government should: Support the independent monitoring of the implementation of the CRPD across the UK, including by funding disabled people's...
Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...
Government should: Consider UN advice on business and economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee draws the attention of the...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: Take action to end physical punishment in all settings, including in the home, across the UK and all...
Government should: Adequately fund the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The State party should provide the Northern Ireland Human Rights...
Government should: Consider UN advice on the equal right of men and women to economic, social and cultural rights. The...
Government should: Use all available resources to make economic, social and cultural rights a reality for everyone. In line with...
Government should: (a) Assess how recent tax policy changes have affected human rights, including the rights of disadvantaged groups. Ensure...
Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...
Government should: (a) Set up clear regulations to ensure companies operating in the UK do not infringe economic, social and...
Government should: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...
Government should: The Northern Ireland Government should adopt a child rights indicator framework which should cover all CRC rights, and...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...
Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...
Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...
Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...
Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...
Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...
Government should: Remove barriers in society so that minority ethnic communities can enjoy human rights without discrimination. Remove structural barriers...
Government should: Ensure that national laws are in line with the international laws that deal with tackling racial discrimination. Ensure...
Government should: Prosecute hate crimes and deal with Islamophobic incidents. Prosecute hate crimes and address incidents of Islamophobia...
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: Keep improving approaches to tackling hate crimes, particularly against racial and religious minorities. Continue to refine its policies...
Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...
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: Keep strengthening national human rights organisations, in line with the Paris Principles. Continue to strengthen the functioning of...
Government should: Continue updating action plans on tackling hate crime and put them into practice effectively. Continue updating and ensure...
Government should: Take steps to put the Istanbul Convention into practice across the UK and other UK territories. Take all...
Government should: Give resources to central, devolved and local authorities to put the Istanbul Convention into practice effectively. Dedicate sufficient...
Government should: Take steps to fully put into practice all of the recommendations, and share a child-friendly version of them...
Government should: Do more to tackle racism, intolerance, xenophobia, religious hatred and related crimes. Take further measures to strengthen countering...
Government should: Take action against public displays of racism and intolerance based on ethnicity and nationality. Take effective measures to...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...
Government should: Remove barriers in society that stop racial and ethnic minorities from enjoying the same human rights without discrimination....
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: 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 stop neo-Nazi activity, discrimination based on race or nationality, and respond properly to antisemitic incidents...
Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...
Government should: Do more to end racism, racial discrimination, Islamophobia and hate crimes, including by improving laws. Strengthen efforts, including...
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: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...
Government should: Implement the present recommendations and distribute them to members of Government and Parliament, relevant ministries, devolved administrations, overseas...
Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...
Government should: Ensure the children’s rights set out in the CRC and its protocols become a reality when the 2030...
UK Government actions In its March 2021 budget, the UK Government announced measures to address regional inequalities, including the Levelling...
The UK Government has taken some action aimed at strengthening institutional, policy and economic frameworks related to human rights and...
Government should: Share the recommendations widely among disabled people, their families and organisations, including in sign language and accessible formats,...
Government should: Involve, and provide funding for, disabled people's organisations in preparing the next periodic report. The Committee strongly encourages...
Government should: Set up a process for implementing and acting on the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Introduce new structures at all levels, such as ministerial leads, with responsibility for putting into practice the rights...
Government should: Make children’s rights the focus of climate change strategies and highlight the risks they face in the National...
Government should: Make human rights the focus of the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan. Adopt a rights-based approach to its forthcoming...
Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...
Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....
Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...
Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...
Government should: a) Plan ways to fully put the CRC into practice in all areas, and ensure that children can...
Government should: Take steps to ensure that children’s rights are considered in all budgeting decisions, and: (a) Set up a...
Government should: (a) Do more to identify child victims of trafficking and to ensure that child victims are referred to...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Remove the ‘Hostile Environment’ policy and ensure children without regular residence status can get legal help, social...
Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, 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) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...
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 ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...
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) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...
Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children, including younger children, disabled children and children in care, can have a say...
Government should: (a) Focus on the best interests of the child in all policies and activities that affect children, including...
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: Include information in its next periodic report about outcomes of implementing the programme of activities for the International...
