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Government should: Amend its abortion law. Guarantee women's right to reproductive and sexual autonomy without legalising selective abortion due to...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make it mandatory for all school children aged 5–16 to learn about sexual and...
The UK Government has made commitments to ensure fair conditions at work, including to tackle sexual harassment. However, it has...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The Welsh Government has...
UK Government actions In March 2021, the census for England and Wales was carried out, on a ‘digital-first’ basis. The...
The UK Government has introduced various measures to improve the collection of equality data, with specific action to improve ethnicity...
The Welsh Government publishes and analyses some data by protected characteristic, although significant data gaps remain. Overall data gaps and...
UK Government actions In December 2020, NHS England published revised guidance on visitor restrictions in maternity units during the coronavirus...
Funding cuts to the public health grant have affected sexual and reproductive health budgets, access to services across England varies,...
Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...
The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...
Government should: Train law enforcement officials about using force proportionately, especially when engaging with minority groups. Continue training of law...
Government should: Make sure that the recent commitment that women in Northern Ireland can access abortion is put into practice....
Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...
Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights. Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...
Government should: (a) Review laws to identify any gaps or conflicts with the ICCPR. Also, ensure full enforcement of all...
Government should: Withdraw its remaining reservations to articles 10, 14, and 24 of the ICCPR. This will ensure the ICCPR...
Government should: (a) Do more to end all racial and ethnic discrimination. This includes in particular systemic discrimination against Gypsies,...
Government should: (a) Do more to stop hate crime by passing laws to make sure that laws prohibiting hate crime...
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 introduced a Nationality and Borders Bill with the stated aims of...
Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Government should: Amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland in line with women's rights to health, life and dignity. Consider UN...
Government should: (a) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Increase the availability of high-quality data disaggregated by: income, sex, age, gender, race, ethnic origin, migrant, asylum-seeking and...
Government should: (a) Increase the number of women in decision-making roles, in public and private sectors. (b) End the gender...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...
Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government published a new policy to support the needs of perinatal women...
Government should: Implement the Committee's previous recommendations on abortion law in Northern Ireland, in line with provisions in the Good...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...
Government should: Provide reproductive health care for all women and girls, in line with CEDAW. Government should: Provide reproductive health...
Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
The UK Government has taken important steps to improve victim support and access to legal aid, including the Victims’ Code...
As all human rights are interconnected, Government should: Consider ratifying the international human rights treaties it has not yet ratified....
