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Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop programmes to make judges, prosecutors, police officers and prison staff...
Government should: Do more to tackle human trafficking, especially of women and girls. Strengthen efforts to combat human trafficking, especially...
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: Ensure that victims of trafficking have information about their rights and what support they can get soon after...
Government should: Tackle human trafficking and sexual exploitation properly. Effectively combat human trafficking and sexual exploitation...
Government should: End trafficking of people, women and girls especially women and girls, and support victims. Put an end to...
Government should: Ensure that anti-trafficking laws are in line with obligations under international law, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress...
Government should: Do more to identify victims of trafficking and support their recovery Take further steps to improve the identification...
Government should: Increase opportunities for women to gain access to formal employment with equal pay for work of equal value....
Government should: Keep tackling human trafficking and protect and help victims of trafficking. Continue efforts aimed at combatting human trafficking...
Government should: Do more to identify victims of human trafficking and forced labour, give them access to legal and psychological...
Government should: Do more to tackle human trafficking and protect victims of trafficking. Scale up efforts in combating human trafficking...
Government should: Do more to investigate claims of human trafficking; train law enforcement officers, prison personnel and others who may...
Government should: Do more to deal with human trafficking and slavery. Intensify efforts to combat human trafficking and all forms...
Government should: Do more to investigate claims of human trafficking, and improve training for law enforcement officers, prison staff and...
Government should: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...
Government should: Enhance efforts to further narrow the gender pay gap. Enhance efforts to further narrow the gender pay gap...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people, to ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal...
Government should: Review and remove any law that discriminates against migrant groups or that limits the rights of asylum seekers,...
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: Take steps to combat the discrimination and inequalities faced by ethnic minorities, to remove barriers to rights and...
Government should: Take effective measures to prevent and combat racism and racial discrimination, hatred and violence in sports. It should...
Government should: (a) Align its anti-human trafficking laws with international standards. This includes reforming the National Referral Mechanism and ensuring...
Government should: Ensure migrant workers are not vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by employers and the UK visa system. Take...
Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...
Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Increase formal employment opportunities for women and disabled people, and ensure equal pay for work of equal value....
Government should: Keep taking action to deal with the differences in experiences of ethnic groups in criminal justice, employment, mental...
Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people to ensure that they can have decent work and equal pay....
Government should: Keep doing more to increase opportunities for women to find and undertake formal employment. Continue taking additional measures...
Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...
Government should: Update the law to end gender discrimination in employment, including pay gaps and access to fund enforcement bodies....
Government should: Make education, employment and healthcare easier to access for women and girls in remote rural areas. Make education,...
Government should: Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling wars and conflicts. Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling and...
Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...
Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...
Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...
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) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: Collect disaggregated employment and activity data on people from ethnic minority groups. Take further steps to tackle unemployment,...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Consider ways to encourage migrant domestic workers to report abuse or ill-treatment to authorities, including giving migrant domestic...
Government should: (a) Improve efforts to investigate claims of human trafficking, prosecute perpetrators and ensure that victims obtain compensation. Consider...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...
Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...
Government should: (a) Take action to increase the number of women in decision-making roles in the workplace and reduce women's...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Government should: Increase efforts towards equal representation for women in the civil service and the judiciary. Implement the recommendations of...
Government should: Review the Trade Union Act 2016. Ensure all workers enjoy full trade union rights without interference. Implement the...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
Government should: Extend the national living wage to under 25s. Set it at a level which provides workers and their...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
Governent should: Consider UN advice on the right to just and favourable working conditions. The Committee draws the attention of...
Government should: (a) Reduce the use of temporary employment, precarious self-employment and 'zero-hours' contracts. Create opportunities offering security and protection...
Government should: Review its employment policies to address the root causes of unemployment. Develop an action plan focusing specifically on...
Government should: (a) Increase the number of women in decision-making roles, in public and private sectors. (b) End the gender...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CRPD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
UK Government actions: In April 2022, the Nationality and Borders Act received Royal Assent. It includes changes to the identification...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and all forms of slavery. Continue efforts to fight human trafficking and all forms...
UK Government actions In March 2021, as part of its Build Back Better plan for growth and 2021 Budget, the...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government responded to the Women and Equalities Select Committee consultation on sexual...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published the National Disability Strategy, which included plans to reduce the...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...
Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Tackle discrimination against women, particularly in the labour market, and the gender pay gap. Address the problem of...
Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...
Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...
Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and protecting child victims. Continue strengthening the positive measures taken to combat the crime...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Monitor the implementation of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, including its affect on combating trafficking in women and...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking (specifically of women and girls), and to support and rehabilitate victims. Strengthen...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking, and ensure protection and support for victims. Strengthen the national framework to...
Government should: Adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking in women and girls. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to identify...
Government should: Strengthen the National Referral Mechanism to identify and support human trafficking victims. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to...
Government should: Fully investigate cases of human trafficking and punish the perpetrators. Investigate thoroughly incidents of trafficking in human beings...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Introduce policies to prevent trafficking in women and girls. Guarantee a fair trial to victims of trafficking. Adopt...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: (a) Work harder to acknowledge past wrong and raise awareness of colonialism and the trafficking of enslaved people....
