On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: End the disproportionate use of force against members of minority groups, as reported to the United Nations. Put...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...
Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...
Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...
Government should: Protect and give effect to trans people’s right to health by increasing the capacity of gender identity healthcare...
Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...
Government should: Train law enforcement officials about using force proportionately, especially when engaging with minority groups. Continue training of law...
Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...
Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...
Government should: Do more to protect the rights of women, disabled people and LGTBI people and take action to prevent...
Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...
Government should: Act urgently to stop violence, discrimination and hate speech violating trans people’s rights and dignity; change any law...
Government should: Do more to tackle hate crime, particularly where it is motivated by race or religion. Continue to refine...
Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...
Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...
Government should: Consider reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to remove the requirement for a diagnosis, “living in role” for...
Government should: Reform national laws to include protection against gender-based discrimination. Undertake the necessary reforms to include protection against gender-based...
Government should: Keep working to update the Gender Recognition Act in line with international human rights standards, including recognising trans...
Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...
Government should: (a) Do more to deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...
Government should: Do more to protect people from gender-based violence. Further promote efforts to protect persons from gender-based violence...
Government should increase efforts to ensure conditions in detention align with international human rights standards, including the United Nations Standard...
Government should: Keep working to ban conversion therapy, including in Northern Ireland. It should also remove unnecessary legal requirements for...
Government should: (a) Do more to stop hate crime by passing laws to make sure that laws prohibiting hate crime...
Government should: (a) Do more to end all racial and ethnic discrimination. This includes in particular systemic discrimination against Gypsies,...
Government should: Withdraw its remaining reservations to articles 10, 14, and 24 of the ICCPR. This will ensure the ICCPR...
Government should: (a) Review laws to identify any gaps or conflicts with the ICCPR. Also, ensure full enforcement of all...
Government should: Develop and implement public awareness campaigns on the human rights of trans people, including dealing with misinformation and...
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: Uphold and improve laws protecting LGBTQI+ people, especially transgender people. Uphold and strengthen legal protections for LGBTQI+ persons,...
Government should: Increase protection from sexual harassment in the workplace for disabled women and LGBTIQ workers, in line with the...
Government should: Consider moving towards the implementation of the action plan for LGBTI people, and ban conversion practices. Consider moving...
Government should: Ban conversion practices for all LGBTQI+ people. Ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQI+ persons...
Government should: Combat media disinformation about the LGBTQI+ community. Combat media disinformation about the LGBTQI+ community...
Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion therapy for all LGBTIQ+ people of all ages. Adopt legislation to ban all...
Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion practices in all forms and settings. Adopt legislation to ban all conversion...
Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act so that it is in line with international human rights standards, including by...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Limited time out of cells, overcrowding, poor conditions, use of force, solitary confinement and self-harm in prisons are commonplace and,...
UK Government actions In June 2021, Ofsted published the findings of a UK Government-commissioned review of sexual abuse in schools...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
The UK Government has made commitments to ensure fair conditions at work, including to tackle sexual harassment. However, it has...
There have been important recent reforms to strengthen the policy and legal framework, and it will take time for their...
The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government published a new policy to support the needs of perinatal women...
While the introduction of compulsory relationships and sex education (RSE) may create further opportunities for schools to teach children about...
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...
Government should: Increase the availability of high-quality data disaggregated by: income, sex, age, gender, race, ethnic origin, migrant, asylum-seeking and...
Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...
Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...
The UK Government has taken some policy and legislative steps to address aspects of violence, abuse and neglect, including its...
The UK Government’s new relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education guidance is welcome, as is action taken in...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Policy reforms and increased investment in mental health services have improved access to support and treatment. However, this has occurred...
Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...
Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
There have been changes to the policy and legal framework to increase political participation and improve the diversity of political...
Women, ethnic minorities and disabled people remain under-represented in politics, and diversity data is inadequate, although the number of women...
UK Government actions: In March 2022, the UK Government published the Online Safety Bill to establish a regulatory regime for...
The UK Government set out a number of actions to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes in the NHS Long...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make relationships and sexuality education a statutory component of the new curriculum – ensuring...
UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
The UK Government’s actions to seek re-election to the UN Human Rights Council indicate a continued commitment to human rights...
The UK Government has rejected several recommendations to strengthen equality and human rights legislation, including introducing the Socio-economic Duty in...
UK Government actions In its March 2021 budget, the UK Government announced measures to address regional inequalities, including the Levelling...
The UK Government has taken some action aimed at strengthening institutional, policy and economic frameworks related to human rights and...
The Welsh Government publishes and analyses some data by protected characteristic, although significant data gaps remain. Overall data gaps and...
The UK Government has introduced various measures to improve the collection of equality data, with specific action to improve ethnicity...
UK Government actions In March 2021, the census for England and Wales was carried out, on a ‘digital-first’ basis. The...
As all human rights are interconnected, Government should: Consider ratifying the international human rights treaties it has not yet ratified....
