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CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 7

Government should: (a) Put disabled people's rights into practice across the UK, and make the CRPD part of UK (and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.165

Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.143

Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.144

Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.145

Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.147

Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.148

Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.149

Government should: Improve the way laws and institutions protect the environment, especially in light of the right to a healthy...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.150

Government should: Remove structural barriers to racial and ethnic minority community, equal and non-discrimination enjoyment of human rights, including the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.152

Government should: Strengthen the implementation of programmes and policies for providing effective access to health care for women belonging to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.154

Government should: Make sure that the recent commitment that women in Northern Ireland can access abortion is put into practice....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.158

Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.159

Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.162

Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.163

Government should: Keep improving laws and policies to ensure inclusive education for disabled children. Continue its efforts towards developing comprehensive...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.167

Government should: Speed up and take more action to respond to climate change and ensure climate justice, in line with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.139

Government should: Ensure that workplaces are inspected to make sure conditions are good and to prevent discrimination. Strengthen the labour...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.168

Government should: Do more to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, including providing enough resources for this purpose. Accelerate efforts...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.169

Government should: Take action to reach and go beyond the UK’s self-defined emission reduction targets. Fully implement and go beyond...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.170

Government should: Take more action against the harmful effects of fracking, environmental pollution and climate change, so everyone can enjoy...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.171

Government should: Introduce or amend laws to create a right for everyone to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.173

Government should: Don’t respond to one-sided economic policies of other countries. Avoid contributing to gross human rights violations of human...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.174

Immediately stop applying one sided economic policies such as sanctions against developing countries. Immediately lift unilateral coercive measures against developing...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.175

Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.176

Government should: Ensure that the arms sector does business responsibly, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.177

Government should: Introduce laws on doing business in areas where conflicts are taking place; advise businesses on respecting human rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.178

Government should: Ensure that financial institutions and other businesses are respectable and accountable, in line with the recommendations of the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.179

Government should: Keep taking action to stop UK military equipment and arms going to places where there is a risk...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.180

Government should: Stop granting new permissions for new oil and gas exploration by way of an immediate moratorium. Establish an...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.181

Government should: Deal comprehensively with the UK’s colonial legacy, including by issuing apologies and compensation for the killing of innocent...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.182

Government should: Stop using human rights to justify interfering in the affairs of other countries. Stop interfering in the internal...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.142

Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.138

Government should: Introduce policies, and provide funding for, professional skills training aimed at, reducing income inequality and making more opportunities...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.184

Government should: Deal with all issues related to the Chagos archipelago through inclusive talks with all concerned. Resolve all outstanding...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.85

Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.68

Government should: Deal with racial discrimination, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate crimes using the law and the justice system. Address...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.69

Government should: Take action against all forms of hate crime and racism, especially against people of African descent. Put in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.70

Government should: Do more to stop the increase in violent and racially motivated hate crimes and improve current policies and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.71

Government should: Do more to tackle hate crime, particularly where it is motivated by race or religion. Continue to refine...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.72

Government should: Act urgently to stop violence, discrimination and hate speech violating trans people’s rights and dignity; change any law...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.73

Government should: Do more to end racism, racial discrimination, Islamophobia and hate crimes, including by improving laws. Strengthen efforts, including...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.74

Government should: Do more to stop neo-Nazi activity, discrimination based on race or nationality, and respond properly to antisemitic incidents...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.75

Government should: Remove barriers in society that stop racial and ethnic minorities from enjoying the same human rights without discrimination....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.77

Government should: End deep-rooted racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, and all hate crimes based on ethnic, racial, cultural or religious...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.78

Government should: Improve laws tackling discrimination of people of African and Asian descent. Strengthen laws that combat racial profiling and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.79

Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.80

Government should: Do more to deal with discrimination and prejudice towards racial, ethnic and religious minorities, including Muslim minorities. Improve...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.82

Government should: End Islamophobia and religious discrimination and intolerance. Eliminate Islamophobia and combat religious discrimination and intolerance...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.84

Government should: Improve laws and policies to end and limit the increase in racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and anti-disabled crimes....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.93

Government should: Take action to stop people being detained based on their appearance or because they are members of particular...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.137

Government should: Keep doing more to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Continue its work on strengthening measures for the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.95

Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.101

Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures and stop them having any discriminatory and disproportionate impact on racial, ethnic and religious minorities....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.109

Government should: Do more to enforce provisional measures and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Strengthen measures to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.111

Government should: Speed up efforts to carry out the 20 actions recommended in the Agenda towards Transformative Change for Racial...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.113

Government should: Take steps to reduce rates of racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination faced by people of African descent...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.115

Government should: Keep taking action to ensure a gender balance in political and public life, particularly in Northern Ireland. Continue...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.116

Government should: Do more to deal with antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment by publicly speaking out against hate speech and violence...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.117

Government should: Keep working with the Media Freedom Coalition to defend media freedom at home and abroad, and improve the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.119

Government should: Do more to protect civil society, including removing laws that may restrict the rights of association and peaceful...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.120

Government should: Take steps to ensure journalists are safe, investigate attacks on journalists, and put into practice the UN Plan...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.121

Government should: Support the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. Promote policies to support the family as...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.122

Government should: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.135

Government should: Promise to set up a national program aimed at stopping women and girls being trafficked for sexual or...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.136

Government should: Make it compulsory for companies to report on gaps between the pay of different ethnic groups. Make pay...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.183

Government should: Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling wars and conflicts. Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.188

Government should: Ensure that women, including women from ethnic minorities are involved in decision-making at all levels. Continue measures to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.66

Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.279

Government should: Ensure migrant workers are not vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by employers and the UK visa system. Take...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.258

Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.259

Government should: Consider doing more to ensure that ethnic minorities enjoy human rights. Consider paying necessary attention to promote the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.260

Government should: Remove barriers in society so that ethnic minority communities can enjoy all human rights without discrimination. Intensify the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.261

Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.262

Government should: Keep promoting equal political, social and economic rights for ethnic minorities, especially women and girls. Continue efforts to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.263

Government should: Keep fighting the discrimination faced by transgender people by expanding the planned ban on conversion practices to include...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.268

Government should: Ban conversion practices for all LGBTQI+ people. Ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQI+ persons...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.269

Government should: Consider moving towards the implementation of the action plan for LGBTI people, and ban conversion practices. Consider moving...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.270

Government should: Increase protection from sexual harassment in the workplace for disabled women and LGBTIQ workers, in line with the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.272

Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.273

Government should: Remove parts of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) that are not in line with the 1951...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.274

Government should: Strengthen and protect the economic and social rights of migrants. Strengthen and safeguard the economic and social rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.275

Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.277

Government should: Ensure that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is in line with the UK’s obligations under...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.281

Government should: Change immigration law and policy to allow for family reunification for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Amend the immigration regulations...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.253

Government should: Use the human rights model of disability in all laws and policies relating to disabled children and young...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.282

Government should: Stop violations of the rights of migrants and refugees. Put an end to the violation of rights of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.285

Government should: Take action to end abuse and exploitation in immigration by respecting relevant human rights standards, in line with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.287

Government should: Improve safety in prisons; deal with problems in immigration detention, including putting a legal time limit on immigration...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.288

Government should: Ensure that all migrants are treated in the same way when arriving in the UK, and ensure they...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.289

Government should: Improve conditions in detention centres for asylum seekers, in line with international human rights standards. Improve humanitarian conditions...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.290

Government should: Halt plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories. Halt its plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories (Iran...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.294

Government should: Ensure that asylum seekers are detained only as a last resort, and introduce a maximum legal detention period....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.296

Government should: Do not return refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin and ban collective deportations. Respect the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.297

Government should: Ensure that refugees are not discriminated against based on how they arrive in the country. Ensure that all...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.298

Government should: Protect refugees and asylum seekers in line with international standards and conventions. Establish international refugee protection asylum seeker...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.300

Government should: Ensure asylum seekers are treated in a way that is in line with the international human rights and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.301

Government should: Stop the practice of detaining asylum-seekers and do not discriminate against any refugee based on how they arrive...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 44.83

Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.211

Government should: Do more to protect people from gender-based violence. Further promote efforts to protect persons from gender-based violence...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.254

Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people, to ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.252

Government should: Introduce new ways to improve food security, in particular for young children, adolescents and disabled people. Advance measures...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.189

Government should: Update the law to end gender discrimination in employment, including pay gaps and access to fund enforcement bodies....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.219

Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and do more to reach net zero no later...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.190

Government should: Ensure victims of domestic violence and their families can access support and protection from further abuse. Take measures...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.191

Government should: Ensure that changes to tax and benefits policies do not have disproportionately negative effects on older women. Apply...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.193

Government should: Ensure women in rural areas have a say in policy making, responding to disasters and climate change. Ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.194

Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.195

Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.196

Government should: Keep working internationally to promote and implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Continue...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.197

Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights.   Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.198

Government should: Ensure that all domestic violence cases are fully investigated and prosecuted and that the authorities have the training...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.201

Government should: Promote gender equality and ensure women are free from all discrimination and violence. Promote gender equality and ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.206

Government should: Take action to increase women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.207

Government should: Take diverse actions to prevent violence against women, including improving reporting systems, increasing conviction rates and providing targeted...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.214

Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.217

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, put child justice standards into practice and ban...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.218

Government should: Introduce a national anti-poverty strategy and end child poverty. Develop a comprehensive nationwide anti-poverty strategy and eliminate child...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.222

Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.251

Government should: Provide support for disabled people in rural areas. Provide support accessible to people with disabilities at the rural...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.223

Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.226

Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.227

Government should: Consider banning solitary confinement of juveniles. Consider prohibiting the use of solitary confinement for juveniles...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.229

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards, and stop the use of isolation measures...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.231

Government should: Take urgent action to end corporal punishment of children and raise the age of criminal responsibility in line...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.234

Government should: Introduce a digital inclusion strategy for children and young people to promote online safety and sustainable inclusion. Develop...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.235

Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.237

Government should: Put the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into practice by introducing a strategy to end...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.238

Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.239

Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the family, to ensure that they are fully protected...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.247

Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people to ensure that they can have decent work and equal pay....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.248

Government should: Increase formal employment opportunities for women and disabled people, and ensure equal pay for work of equal value....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.249

Government should: Introduce an employment policy specifically for disabled people. Develop an effective employment policy, specifically designed for people with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.250

Government should: Do more to protect the rights of women, disabled people and LGTBI people and take action to prevent...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.67

Government should: Take action to deal with structural racial discrimination. Take concrete steps in addressing structural forms of racial discrimination...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.65

Government should: Take action against public displays of racism and intolerance based on ethnicity and nationality. Take effective measures to...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 9

Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 14

Government should: Ensure governments across the UK and all overseas territories routinely collect and publish data disaggregated by ethnicity in...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 16

Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 18

Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 20

Government should: Continue to tackle money laundering and tax evasion, particularly in its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and assess...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 22

Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 26

Government should: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 34

Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 54

Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on the rights of rural women: (a) Take action to...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 62

Government should: Share the recommendations of the Committee widely across all levels of government and public bodies, as well as...

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 61

Government should: Use the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to help implemement the provisions of CEDAW. The Committee calls...

UN recommendation

CAT concluding observations 2019, paragraph 17

Government should: Set out in law the role and powers of the United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and its...

UN recommendation

CAT concluding observations 2019, paragraph 25

Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed information about all deaths in custody and the causes of those deaths....

UN recommendation

CAT concluding observations 2019, paragraph 66

Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...

UN recommendation

CAT concluding observations 2019, paragraph 68

Government should: Share the UK's report to the UN and the Committee against Torture's recommendations widely, through official websites, the...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 12

Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 17

Government should: Remove its interpretative declaration on CERD article 4. The Committee also reiterates its recommendation that the State party...

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 7

Government should: Adequately fund the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The State party should provide the Northern Ireland Human Rights...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 23

Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 25

Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 19

Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 37

Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 27

Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 31

Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 51

Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 69

Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 73

Government should: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraphs 75

Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on children's right to rest, leisure, play and cultural life, ensure all...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 47

Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 48

Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.55

Government should: Involve civil society in decision-making processes, particularly regarding putting the present recommendations into practice. Listen to British human...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.59

Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 20

Government should: Take action to end physical punishment in all settings, including in the home, across the UK and all...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 28

Government should: Consider UN advice on the equal right of men and women to economic, social and cultural rights. The...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.79

Government should: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 63

Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 11

Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 19

Government should: Embed the rights of disabled women and girls into disability and gender equality policies. Fully consult on this...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 21

Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 25

Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 27

Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 29

Government should: (a) Produce a thorough plan for reducing the risk of disasters. Develop strategies to ensure disabled people can...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 31

Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 37

Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 39

Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 45

Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 53

Government should: Consult disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure all disabled children get an inclusive education in their own communities....

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 55

Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 57

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 59

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 67

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Promptly update the UK Department for International Development’s Disability Framework and...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 19

Government should: Use all available resources to make economic, social and cultural rights a reality for everyone. In line with...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 69

Government should: Establish and fund a structure for focal points to coordinate the implementation of CRPD across the UK. The...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 71

Government should: Support the independent monitoring of the implementation of the CRPD across the UK, including by funding disabled people's...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 8

Government should: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 9

Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 10

Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 11

Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 13

Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 14

Government should: The Northern Ireland Government should adopt a child rights indicator framework which should cover all CRC rights, and...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 16

Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 8

Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 12

Government should: (a) Set up clear regulations to ensure companies operating in the UK do not infringe economic, social and...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 13

Government should: Consider UN advice on business and economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee draws the attention of the...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 15

Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 17

Government should: (a) Assess how recent tax policy changes have affected human rights, including the rights of disadvantaged groups. Ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.62

Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.80

Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.64

Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 60

Government should: Take steps to fully put into practice all of the recommendations, and share a child-friendly version of them...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 33

Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 35

Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 38

Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 41

Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 43

Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 44

Government should: (a) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 45

Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 46

Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 48

Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 51

Government should: (a) Remove the ‘Hostile Environment’ policy and ensure children without regular residence status can get legal help, social...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 52

Government should: (a) Do more to identify child victims of trafficking and to ensure that child victims are referred to...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 54

Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 55

Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 56

Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.39

Government should: Give resources to central, devolved and local authorities to put the Istanbul Convention into practice effectively. Dedicate sufficient...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 26

Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.41

Government should: Take steps to put the Istanbul Convention into practice across the UK and other UK territories. Take all...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.51

Government should: Continue updating action plans on tackling hate crime and put them into practice effectively. Continue updating and ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.52

Government should: Keep strengthening national human rights organisations, in line with the Paris Principles. Continue to strengthen the functioning of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.53

Government should: Take steps to combat racism, hate crimes and Islamophobia. Adopt measures aiming at combating racism, hate crimes and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.54

Government should: Keep taking action to stop discrimination, achieve equality and remove barriers that prevent racial and ethnic minorities from...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.55

Government should: Keep improving approaches to tackling hate crimes, particularly against racial and religious minorities. Continue to refine its policies...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.56

Government should: Remove barriers in society so that minority ethnic communities can enjoy human rights without discrimination. Remove structural barriers...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.57

Government should: Take steps to address institutional racism, including by removing barriers so that minority racial and ethnic communities enjoy...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.58

Government should: Deal with negative attitudes and behaviours rooted in colonialism, and deal with the causes of racism, xenophobia and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.59

Government should: Develop broad policies and practices that end discrimination against minorities. Advance comprehensive policies and practices to eliminate discrimination...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.60

Government should: Do more to stop racism and discrimination on the grounds of race. Scale up efforts in ensuring the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.61

Government should: Prosecute hate crimes and deal with Islamophobic incidents. Prosecute hate crimes and address incidents of Islamophobia...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.62

Government should: Ensure that national laws are in line with the international laws that deal with tackling racial discrimination. Ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.63

Government should: Do more to tackle racism, intolerance, xenophobia, religious hatred and related crimes. Take further measures to strengthen countering...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 30

Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 23

Government should: (a) Ensure that all children, including younger children, disabled children and children in care, can have a say...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.81

Government should: Do more to end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.126

Government should: Make human rights the focus of the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan. Adopt a rights-based approach to its forthcoming...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.82

Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.83

Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.84

Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.87

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities. Review and strengthen current policies and initiatives...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.88

Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.89

Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.90

Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.91

Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.93

Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.94

Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.95

Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.96

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.97

Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.98

Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.189

Government should: Make children’s rights the focus of climate change strategies and highlight the risks they face in the National...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 21

Government should: (a) Focus on the best interests of the child in all policies and activities that affect children, including...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 74

Government should: Set up a process for implementing and acting on the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 75

Government should: Implement the present recommendations and distribute them to members of Government and Parliament, relevant ministries, devolved administrations, overseas...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 76

Government should: Involve, and provide funding for, disabled people's organisations in preparing the next periodic report. The Committee strongly encourages...

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 77

Government should: Share the recommendations widely among disabled people, their families and organisations, including in sign language and accessible formats,...

UN recommendation

Institutional, policy and economic frameworks – UK Government assessment

The UK Government has taken some action aimed at strengthening institutional, policy and economic frameworks related to human rights and...

Progress assessment Limited progress

Institutional, policy and economic frameworks – Government action

UK Government actions In its March 2021 budget, the UK Government announced measures to address regional inequalities, including the Levelling...

Government action

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 6

Ensure the children’s rights set out in the CRC and its protocols become a reality when the 2030 Agenda for...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 8

Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 9

Government should: a) Plan ways to fully put the CRC into practice in all areas, and ensure that children can...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 10

Government should: Introduce new structures at all levels, such as ministerial leads, with responsibility for putting into practice the rights...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 11

Take steps to ensure that children’s rights are considered in all budgeting decisions, and: (a) Set up a tracking system...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 13

Government should: (a) Give national human rights institutions and Children’s Commissioners the powers and resources they need to monitor children’s...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 16

Government should: (a) Hold businesses responsible for meeting legal standards, including on international and national human rights, labour and the...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 20

Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.86

Government should: Keep putting into practice the recommendations of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Continue its efforts...

UN recommendation