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UK Government actions In June 2021, Ofsted published the findings of a UK Government-commissioned review of sexual abuse in schools...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking, and ensure protection and support for victims. Strengthen the national framework to...
Government should: (a) Take urgent steps to provide redress, including compensation and rehabilitation, for victims identified by the Historical Institution...
Government should: Ensure that all women and girls in the UK, including Northern Ireland, can access abortions in situations where...
Government should: (a) Consider creating a specialist unit in the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service to strengthen the use...
Government should: Consider changing the law to ensure that all victims of torture are able to access remedy and obtain...
Government should: (a) Ensure that caseworkers properly consider statements from health professionals about torture victims and other people who are...
Government should: Consider ways to encourage migrant domestic workers to report abuse or ill-treatment to authorities, including giving migrant domestic...
Government should: (a) Ensure that the parents or guardians of intersex children receive impartial counselling and psychological and social support....
Government should: Update the 1988 Criminal Justice Act and ban all forms of torture, including removing so-called 'escape clauses'. Enact...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Fully investigate cases of human trafficking and punish the perpetrators. Investigate thoroughly incidents of trafficking in human beings...
Government should: Strengthen the National Referral Mechanism to identify and support human trafficking victims. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to...
Government should: Monitor the implementation of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, including its affect on combating trafficking in women and...
Government should: (a) Urgently implement the Stormont House Agreement, which was adopted by the British and Irish Governments and the...
Government should: Develop a plan to improve deteriorating conditions in UK prisons. Tackle rising assaults and killings among prisoners. Initiate...
Government should: Review prison conditions to make them safer places. Consider developing an action plan to address increases in self-harm,...
Government should: Do more to reduce violence and sexual exploitation against children. Take more measures to fight against sexual exploitation...
Government should: Ban physical punishment in the family in all devolved administrations and overseas territories. Remove all legal defences such...
Government should: Ensure physical punishment is banned in all educational and other institutions, and in the care system. Ensure that...
Government should: Ban physical punishment in all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...
Government should: Consider changing laws on the physical punishment of children. Reconsider its position on the legality of corporal punishment...
Government should: Ban the physical punishment of children to protect them from violence. Ban corporal punishment of children to ensure...
Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, and...
Government should: Ban all physical punishment of children, in line with the CRC. Take further actions in protecting the rights...
Government should: Develop and put into practice joined-up strategies to combat child exploitation and abuse. Develop and implement comprehensive multisectoral...
Government should: (a) Promptly investigate cases of paramilitary violence, including against children, in Northern Ireland. Ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted...
Government should: (a) Develop compulsory training for public officials that covers the content of the CAT. (b) Ensure that all...
The UK Government has taken some policy and legislative steps to address aspects of violence, abuse and neglect, including its...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...
The Welsh Government has taken some positive policy and legislative steps, including a range of actions to address childhood adversity....
Government should consider UN advice on children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...
Government should: (a) Tackle bullying and violence in schools, through teaching human rights, building respect for diversity and improving conflict-resolution...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Tackle violence against women. Take further action to combat sexual exploitation and sexual crimes against children. Effectively fight...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated quickly and...
Government should: (a) Remove laws allowing people to be detained and treated without their consent on the basis of their...
Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...
Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and protecting child victims. Continue strengthening the positive measures taken to combat the crime...
Government should: Do more to cut the prison population, while improving prisoner safety. Take concrete measures to reduce the current...
Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...
Government should: Review laws to repeal any possible justification for torture, in line with international standards (including ICCPR article 7)....
Government should: Fully apply the ban on refoulement (forcibly returning people to countries where they are likely to be persecuted),...
Government should: Take action to end physical punishment in all settings, including in the home, across the UK and all...
Government should: Repeal Section 134 (4) and (5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, which allow certain defences for torture....
Government should: Collect and publish disaggregated data on all complaints and reports of torture or ill-treatment received by government authorities....
Government should: Fully investigate all cases of sexual violence against children by high-level officials, and prosecute the perpetrators. Complete the...
