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Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CRPD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Maintain international obligations and standards in line with the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. Maintain...
Government should: Remain committed to fully putting into practice the European Convention on Human Rights. Remain committed to fully implement...
Government should: Ensure the proposed Bill of Rights does not weaken the Human Rights Act 1998. Take necessary measures to...
Government should: Bring all legislation on communication surveillance in line with international human rights standards; ensure all communications surveillance is...
Government should: Ensure that the British Bill of Rights provides the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...
Government should: Ensure that any future human rights laws comply with the duty under the Good Friday Agreement to fully...
Government should: Ensure that any amendments to the law provide the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...
Government should: Reconsider replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights and commit to giving effect to...
Government should: Harmonise the core human rights treaties with domestic law. Harmonize the core human rights treaties into domestic law...
Government should: Ensure that any reform to the Human Rights Act 1998 does not weaken protections or limit people’s ability...
Government should: Continue efforts to submit overdue State Party Reports to UN treaty bodies. Continue efforts to ensure the submission...
Government should: Take steps to put the Istanbul Convention into practice across the UK and other UK territories. Take all...
Government should: Fully implement and give effect to the European Convention on Human Rights in UK law. Ensure that the...
Government should: Ensure that any laws that replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 provide at least the same level...
Government should: Commit to continuing to incorporate ECHR rights and provisions. Commit to continued domestic incorporation of ECHR rights and...
Government should: Improve the status of ratified human rights treaties in domestic law. Enhance the status of the ratified human...
Government should: Ensure that any reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not reduce protection or access to the...
Government should Not replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 with more limited laws, but instead keep the level of...
Government should: Keep the current level of protection provided by the Human Rights Act of 1998, including the rights of...
Government should: Prosecute hate crimes and deal with Islamophobic incidents. Prosecute hate crimes and address incidents of Islamophobia...
Government should: remain a member state of the Council of Europe and party to the European Convention on Human Rights....
Government should: Remove the declaration about interpretation of article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights...
Government should: Ensure laws dealing with the legacy of the Troubles are in line with the UK’s human rights obligations;...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Take steps to ratify the...
Government should: Reintroduce the target of giving 0.7 per cent of gross national income to overseas development and ensure that...
Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: Agree to the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure. The Committee recommends that the State party, in...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention on...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to put into practice the CRC and other human rights. The Committee...
Government should: Submit an eighth periodic report by the date to be set by the Committee; the report should be...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Consider...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Ratify the Optional Protocol...
Government should: Take steps to allow individual complaints under UN human rights treaties such as the Convention against Torture and...
Government should: Ratify international human rights instruments that are not yet ratified; allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to ensure everyone can play a part...
Government should: Continue reviewing the reservations on ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Withdraw the declaration about the interpretation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All...
Government should: Allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on alleged human rights violations in the UK, as in article...
Government should: Consider withdrawing the declaration about interpretation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All...
Government should: Remove reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Withdraw reservations to...
Government should: Consider withdrawing the reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Consider...
Government should: Put into practice international recommendations about remove the interpretative declaration under article 4 of the International Convention on...
Government should: Do more to enforce provisional measures and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Strengthen measures to...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on international cooperation, including with human rights mechanisms....
Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is implemented in line with international refugee and human rights conventions...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...
Government should: Remove parts of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) that are not in line with the 1951...
Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...
Government should: Remove the reservation to article 59 of the Istanbul Convention, so that all migrant women receive the same...
Government should: Ensure that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is in line with the UK’s obligations under...
Government should: Defend and improve laws protecting the rights of asylum seekers and migrant workers in line with international law,...
Government should: Stop violations of the rights of migrants and refugees. Put an end to the violation of rights of...
Government should: Take action to end abuse and exploitation in immigration by respecting relevant human rights standards, in line with...
Government should: Improve conditions in detention centres for asylum seekers, in line with international human rights standards. Improve humanitarian conditions...
Government should: End the plan to transfer asylum seekers to other countries, which violates international law. Stop plans to transfer...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years, in line with international standards. Raise the age of...
Government should: Ensure that asylum seekers are detained only as a last resort, and introduce a maximum legal detention period....
Government should: Meet obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and do not take any action that undermines the right to...
Government should: Ensure that refugees are not discriminated against based on how they arrive in the country. Ensure that all...
Government should: Protect refugees and asylum seekers in line with international standards and conventions. Establish international refugee protection asylum seeker...
Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is fully in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention. Ensure that...
Government should: Ensure asylum seekers are treated in a way that is in line with the international human rights and...
Government should: not send asylum seekers to Rwanda and end the Asylum Partnership Agreement, which is out of line with...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Move towards ratifying the International...
Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...
Government should: Keep fighting the discrimination faced by transgender people by expanding the planned ban on conversion practices to include...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Take steps to reduce rates of racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination faced by people of African descent...
Government should: Keep working to update the Gender Recognition Act in line with international human rights standards, including recognising trans...
Government should: Keep working with the Media Freedom Coalition to defend media freedom at home and abroad, and improve the...
Government should: Take steps to ensure journalists are safe, investigate attacks on journalists, and put into practice the UN Plan...
Government should: Ensure that anti-trafficking laws are in line with obligations under international law, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress...
Government should: Speed up and take more action to respond to climate change and ensure climate justice, in line with...
Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...
Government should: Ensure that financial institutions and other businesses are respectable and accountable, in line with the recommendations of the...
Government should: Keep taking action to stop UK military equipment and arms going to places where there is a risk...
Government should: Keep working internationally to promote and implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Continue...
Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights. Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...
Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and do more to reach net zero no later...
Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the family, to ensure that they are fully protected...
Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...
Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action, and do more to reach net-zero emissions targets no...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of...
Government should: Look at reviewing the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Evaluate revising the minimum age...
Government should: Do more to integrate the Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law. Take further steps...
Government should: Take urgent action to end corporal punishment of children and raise the age of criminal responsibility in line...
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 line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the...
The UK Government’s actions to seek re-election to the UN Human Rights Council indicate a continued commitment to human rights...
UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...
Government should: Submit the UK's next State Report to the UN by 8 July 2023. The Committee requests the State...
Government should: Widely distribute the State Reports and the present recommendations. The Committee recommends that the State party’s reports be...
Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. The Committee...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure to allow children who feel their rights...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to make the CRC and other human rights treaties a reality at...
Government should: Take steps to put into practice these recommendations. Make future state reports to the UN available in all...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 14 January 2022. The Committee invites the State party...
Government should: Update its common core document to the UN The Committee also invites the State party to submit an...
Government should: Consider ratifying the remaining human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 6 April 2020. The Committee recommends that the State...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....
Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...
Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...
Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratifying the International...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Provide, in the UK's next State Report, updated and detailed information on the steps being taken to combat...
Government should: Remove its interpretative declaration on CERD article 4. The Committee also reiterates its recommendation that the State party...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 24 July 2020. The Committee requests that the State...
Government should: Ensure its international development cooperation is aimed at strengthening the right to free compulsory primary education for all....
Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...
Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Develop and apply indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress on economic, social and cultural rights. Consider the UN...
Government should: Share these recommendations widely. Consult with civil society organisations in the follow-up and before submitting the UK's next...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 30 June 2021. Update its common core document. The...
Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...
Government should: Within one year, give an update on plans to implement the UN's recommendations on accountability for conflict-related violations...
Government should: Share the recommendations of the Committee widely across all levels of government and public bodies, as well as...
Government should: Submit the UK's next (seventh) report to the UN by 17 May 2023. The UN will send a...
Governent should: Ratify international human rights instruments it has not yet agreed to be bound by, including the International Convention...
Government should: Provide a written report on the steps it has taken to implement the recommendations in paragrapHs 13, 21(a)...
Government should: Submit its next report to the Committee in March 2023, following the harmonised guidelines on reporting under international...
Government should: Use the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to help implemement the provisions of CEDAW. The Committee calls...
Government should: (a) Develop compulsory training for public officials that covers the content of the CAT. (b) Ensure that all...
Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed data on asylum applications that involve torture claims and the outcomes of...
Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...
Government should: Consider making a declaration, in line with article 22 of the CAT, to allow the Committee against Torture...
Government should: Share the UK's report to the UN and the Committee against Torture's recommendations widely, through official websites, the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...
Government should: Set up a process for implementing and acting on the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue its work on accession...
Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratification of the International...
Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...
Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...
Government should: Cooperate with international human rights mechanisms. Pursue cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms (Côte...
Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...
Government should: Improve policies to tackle hate crime, particularly crimes motivated by race and religion. Share any successful strategies with...
Government should: Take further action to return illicit funds and proceeds of corruption to their countries of origin. Cooperate with...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...
Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...
Government should: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...
Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...
Government should: Consider ratifying any outstanding human rights treaties. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments it had not yet...
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Ratify the International Convention for the...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Sign and accede to the International...
Government should: Keep putting into practice the recommendations of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Continue its efforts...
