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Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the Cabinet Office published its Annual Report on Major Projects 2021/22. It assigned the...
We welcome the reduction in the number of children in custody in recent years, a trend that accelerated following the...
UK Government actions: In March 2022, the UK Government published the Online Safety Bill to establish a regulatory regime for...
The number of recorded hate crimes increased between March 2021 and March 2022, although data has been affected by improvements...
Women, ethnic minorities and disabled people remain under-represented in politics, and diversity data is inadequate, although the number of women...
There have been changes to the policy and legal framework to increase political participation and improve the diversity of political...
Government should: a) Plan ways to fully put the CRC into practice in all areas, and ensure that children can...
Government should: a) Improve the way that information on children is collected, in all areas of their lives, and ensure...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
UK Government action taken in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to decreases in homelessness and rough sleeping. Levels...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...
Government should: (a) Do more to deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
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: Continue updating action plans on tackling hate crime and put them into practice effectively. Continue updating and ensure...
Government should: Take steps to combat racism, hate crimes and Islamophobia. Adopt measures aiming at combating racism, hate crimes and...
Government should: Keep taking action to stop discrimination, achieve equality and remove barriers that prevent racial and ethnic minorities from...
Government should: Keep improving approaches to tackling hate crimes, particularly against racial and religious minorities. Continue to refine its policies...
Government should: Remove barriers in society so that minority ethnic communities can enjoy human rights without discrimination. Remove structural barriers...
The Welsh Government has taken action to prevent and reduce homelessness, protect tenants’ rights, improve housing conditions and increase the...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
Government should: Deal with negative attitudes and behaviours rooted in colonialism, and deal with the causes of racism, xenophobia and...
Several permanent welfare reforms introduced by the UK Government, including the two-child limit, have adversely affected the enjoyment of human...
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 legislation aimed at tackling terrorism, following a number of terrorist incidents. While the UK Government...
Funding cuts to the public health grant have affected sexual and reproductive health budgets, access to services across England varies,...
UK Government actions In March 2021, the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 gained royal assent. It allows...
Policing in England and Wales has contributed to a regression in human rights protection for certain groups. Though there is...
The UK Government has taken some action aimed at strengthening institutional, policy and economic frameworks related to human rights and...
UK Government actions In its March 2021 budget, the UK Government announced measures to address regional inequalities, including the Levelling...
The UK Government has introduced some positive reforms in relation to family life, including action to tackle child marriage and...
UK Government actions In March 2021, as part of its Build Back Better plan for growth and 2021 Budget, the...
The UK Government has introduced some measures to increase the employment of certain protected characteristic groups, including in specific sectors,...
The UK Government has rejected several recommendations to strengthen equality and human rights legislation, including introducing the Socio-economic Duty in...
While the Welsh Government has updated its guidance on the procedures for school exclusion, there have been no significant legal...
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: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
The UK Government set out a number of actions to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes in the NHS Long...
The Welsh Government has taken steps to promote equality in health outcomes, and reports of good general health and healthcare...
Policy reforms and increased investment in mental health services have improved access to support and treatment. However, this has occurred...
The Welsh Government has developed policy measures and provided investment to improve mental health outcomes. However, there are shortfalls in...
UK Government actions: The UK Government resumed the use of school exams in summer 2022, with exam boards instructed to...
In England, measuring changes in attainment is difficult due to GCSE and A level reforms over recent years and the...
Measuring changes in attainment is difficult due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on forms of assessment and...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, Department for Education (DfE) revised guidance on behaviour in schools and on suspensions and...
The UK Government has taken welcome steps to address gaps in the existing policy and legal framework regulating the use...
Government should: Take steps to address institutional racism, including by removing barriers so that minority racial and ethnic communities enjoy...
Government should: Develop broad policies and practices that end discrimination against minorities. Advance comprehensive policies and practices to eliminate discrimination...
UK Government actions In March 2021, the census for England and Wales was carried out, on a ‘digital-first’ basis. The...
Government should: Do more to stop racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination against black and other ethnic minorities in schools....
Government should: Speed up efforts to carry out the 20 actions recommended in the Agenda towards Transformative Change for Racial...
Government should: Take steps to reduce rates of racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination faced by people of African descent...
Government should: Do more to deal with antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment by publicly speaking out against hate speech and violence...
Government should: Make it compulsory for companies to report on gaps between the pay of different ethnic groups. Make pay...
Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...
Government should: Keep taking action to deal with the differences in experiences of ethnic groups in criminal justice, employment, mental...
Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...
Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...
Government should: Deal comprehensively with the UK’s colonial legacy, including by issuing apologies and compensation for the killing of innocent...
Government should: Train law enforcement officials about using force proportionately, especially when engaging with minority groups. Continue training of law...
Government should: Ensure that women and girls from all ethnic groups can take part meaningfully in political and public life....
Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...
Government should: Take action to increase women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...
Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...
Government should: Consider doing more to ensure that ethnic minorities enjoy human rights. Consider paying necessary attention to promote the...
Government should: Remove barriers in society so that ethnic minority communities can enjoy all human rights without discrimination. Intensify the...
Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...
Government should: Keep promoting equal political, social and economic rights for ethnic minorities, especially women and girls. Continue efforts to...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...
Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...
Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures and stop them having any discriminatory and disproportionate impact on racial, ethnic and religious minorities....
Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...
Government should: Do more to stop racism and discrimination on the grounds of race. Scale up efforts in ensuring the...
Government should: Do more to end racism, racial discrimination, Islamophobia and hate crimes, including by improving laws. Strengthen efforts, including...
Government should: Prosecute hate crimes and deal with Islamophobic incidents. Prosecute hate crimes and address incidents of Islamophobia...
Government should: Ensure that national laws are in line with the international laws that deal with tackling racial discrimination. Ensure...
Government should: Do more to tackle racism, intolerance, xenophobia, religious hatred and related crimes. Take further measures to strengthen countering...
Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...
Government should: Take action against public displays of racism and intolerance based on ethnicity and nationality. Take effective measures to...
Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...
Government should: Take action to deal with structural racial discrimination. Take concrete steps in addressing structural forms of racial discrimination...
Government should: Deal with racial discrimination, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate crimes using the law and the justice system. Address...
Government should: Take action against all forms of hate crime and racism, especially against people of African descent. Put in...
Government should: Do more to stop the increase in violent and racially motivated hate crimes and improve current policies and...
Government should: Do more to tackle hate crime, particularly where it is motivated by race or religion. Continue to refine...
Government should: Do more to stop neo-Nazi activity, discrimination based on race or nationality, and respond properly to antisemitic incidents...
Government should: Take action to stop people being detained based on their appearance or because they are members of particular...
Government should: Remove barriers in society that stop racial and ethnic minorities from enjoying the same human rights without discrimination....
Government should: Find and deal with gaps in hate crime laws to better tackle with racist and xenophobic speech and...
Government should: End deep-rooted racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, and all hate crimes based on ethnic, racial, cultural or religious...
Government should: Improve laws tackling discrimination of people of African and Asian descent. Strengthen laws that combat racial profiling and...
Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...
Government should: Do more to deal with discrimination and prejudice towards racial, ethnic and religious minorities, including Muslim minorities. Improve...
Government should: Put into practice international recommendations about remove the interpretative declaration under article 4 of the International Convention on...
Government should: Improve laws and policies to end and limit the increase in racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and anti-disabled crimes....
Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...
Government should: End violence and overcrowding in prisons and stop jailing disproportionate numbers of people from minority ethnic groups. Put...
Government should: End the disproportionate use of force against members of minority groups, as reported to the United Nations. Put...
The UK Government has introduced various measures to improve the collection of equality data, with specific action to improve ethnicity...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make relationships and sexuality education a statutory component of the new curriculum – ensuring...
Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...
Government should: Consider ratifying the remaining human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: (a) Take further action to end all racist bullying and harassment in schools. Make schools collect data on...
Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...
Government should: Set a legal time limit for immigration detention. Ensure detention is used only as a last resort, and...
Government should: Ensure CERD applies in all territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. Fully consult with the Chagossians (Îlois)...
Government should: (a) Ban non-statutory stop-and-search checks against children. (b) Ensure statutory stop-and-search checks are proportionate (considering the age and...
Government should: Provide, in the UK's next State Report, updated and detailed information on the steps being taken to combat...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...
Government should: Fully consult with civil society organisations when preparing the UK's next State Report, and in the follow-up to...
Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...
Government should: Take steps to ensure people belonging to ethnic minorities have full access to quality health care. Take steps...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...
Government should: Widely distribute the State Reports and the present recommendations. The Committee recommends that the State party’s reports be...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 6 April 2020. The Committee recommends that the State...
Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...
Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...
Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...
Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Government should: Collect disaggregated employment and activity data on people from ethnic minority groups. Take further steps to tackle unemployment,...
Government should: Investigate the disproportionate number of black people and people of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system across...
Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...
Government should: (a) Take action to increase the number of women in decision-making roles in the workplace and reduce 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: Review its employment policies to address the root causes of unemployment. Develop an action plan focusing specifically on...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: (a) Ensure there is sufficient housing (especially social housing), particularly for the most disadvantaged groups, including those on...
Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...
Government should: Reduce achievement gaps in education, particularly among children from low income families. Take further action to avoid segregating...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: Ensure that women, particularly women in vulnerable situations such as disabled women, ethnic minority women, asylum-seeking and refugee...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...
Government should: Take specific steps to increase the numbers of women in general, and ethnic minority women and disabled women...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
Government should: Ensure the governments of Northern Ireland and Wales regularly review the impact of stop and search powers on...
Government should: Ensure that the use of electrical discharge weapons (tasers) follows the principles of necessity, subsidiarity, proportionality, advance warning...
Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...
Government should: Consult the public on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and on the proposal for a new...
Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...
Government should: Ensure governments across the UK and all overseas territories routinely collect and publish data disaggregated by ethnicity in...
Government should: (a) Investigate all reported racist hate crimes, prosecute perpetrators and provide remedies for victims. (b) Collect disaggregated data...
Government should: Remove its interpretative declaration on CERD article 4. The Committee also reiterates its recommendation that the State party...
Government should: Review the use of existing counter-terrorism measures (in particular the 'prevent duty' under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act...
Government should: Ensure members of ethnic minorities can access fair and effective legal aid across the UK and in all...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...
Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...
The UK Government’s new relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education guidance is welcome, as is action taken in...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government responded to the Women and Equalities Select Committee consultation on sexual...
UK Government actions In September 2021, Public Health England published updated guidance on preventing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in...
The UK Government has committed to introducing a new Mental Health Bill and implementing new laws to prevent the use...
There have been important recent reforms to strengthen the policy and legal framework, and it will take time for their...
The introduction of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 (the VAWDASV Act) and the...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published the National Disability Strategy, which included plans to reduce the...
In recent years, the employment rate has increased overall, employment rates have improved for some, but not all, ethnic groups,...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The employment rate in...
Despite the implementation of wide-ranging reforms since 2014, children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities (SEND) still face barriers...
Although rates of relative poverty have remained static for working-age adults, the number of children living in relative poverty and...
Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the UK, with no significant improvements in people’s outcomes over recent years....
The UK Government has made commitments to ensure fair conditions at work, including to tackle sexual harassment. However, it has...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government introduced a Nationality and Borders Bill with the stated aims of...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The Welsh Government has...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
UK Government actions In April 2021, the UK Parliament passed the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act, first introduced...
The UK Government has continued to seek to limit its accountability for responding to allegations of human rights abuses and...
The UK Government has taken some policy and legislative steps to address aspects of violence, abuse and neglect, including its...
The Welsh Government has taken some positive policy and legislative steps, including a range of actions to address childhood adversity....
UK Government actions In October 2020, the UK Government updated the ‘headteachers’ standards’, which set baseline expectations for professional practice...
While the introduction of compulsory relationships and sex education (RSE) may create further opportunities for schools to teach children about...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published a revised draft of its statutory guidance for schools, ‘Keeping...
The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...
Limited time out of cells, overcrowding, poor conditions, use of force, solitary confinement and self-harm in prisons are commonplace and,...
Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...
Government should: Do more to end racism and hate speech by encouraging dialogue and cooperation between different religions and nationalities....
Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...
Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...
Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...
Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....
Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...
Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...
Government should: Put into practice the 'Hate Crime Action Plan' to reduce racially and religiously motivated crimes. Ensure efficient implementation...
Government should: Do more to end racial hatred, which leads to hate crimes. Take additional serious measures to eliminate race...
Government should: Improve policies to tackle hate crime, particularly crimes motivated by race and religion. Share any successful strategies with...
Government should: Work with parliamentarians, human rights institutions and civil society organisations to better protect ethnic and religious minorities, refugees...
Government should: Strengthen laws to tackle racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes. Address racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes by...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government published a new policy to support the needs of perinatal women...
Government should: Take action to combat racism and hate crimes. Ensure victims can access redress and compensation. Adopt measures aimed...
Government should: Take further action to combat increasing hate speech, islamophobia and hate crimes on the basis of race. Address...
Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures which target people or groups based on race, ethnic background or religion, including Muslims or...
Government should: Ensure the planned counter-extremism bill aligns with international law and does not single out certain organisations based on...
Government should: Protect indigenous people's right to self-determination in their home territories, in line with the UN Charter. Enable indigenous...
Government should: Stop evicting indigenous people from the territories they occupy. Stop the forced evictions of indigenous peoples in the...
Government should: Fully respect the sovereignty of Mauritius and recognise the right of resettlement of the Chagossians in line with...
Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...
Government should: Do more to promote racial equality and social inclusion in Northern Ireland's education system. Step up efforts to...
Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...
UK Government actions In August 2021, the UK Government responded to a consultation on increasing selected court fees. In July...
Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...
