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Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...

Government should: Align the UK Immigration Act 2016 with international human rights law, including the CRC. Improve on the United...

Government should: Protect people without citizenship of another country and speed up the process of granting British nationality in an...

Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...

Government should: Take action to ensure unaccompanied children who are refugees or resettled in the UK can be reunited with...

Government should: Change the law to help reunite child asylum seekers and refugees in the UK with their families. Reform...

Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure vulnerable...

Government should: Continue promoting the rights of migrants in the UK. Continue and strengthen the promotion of the rights of...

Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Consider revising...

Government should: Like other European countries, limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure children...

Government should: Ban the indefinite detention of migrants and find alternatives to detention. ncorporate a prohibition to indefinite detention of...

Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...

Government should: Review the Immigration Act (2016) and put it in line with the CRC. Review the 2016 Immigration Act...

Government should: Fully respect the sovereignty of Mauritius and recognise the right of resettlement of the Chagossians in line with...

Government should: Develop policies to aid social integration, especially for migrants and refugees. Develop social integration policies, especially for migrants...

Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. End automatic life sentences for offenders aged...

Government should: Stop evicting indigenous people from the territories they occupy. Stop the forced evictions of indigenous peoples in the...

Government should: Submit an update to the UN, by 17 May 2020, on progress made in implementing the Committee against...

Government should: Consider making a declaration, in line with article 22 of the CAT, to allow the Committee against Torture...

Government should: Share the UK's report to the UN and the Committee against Torture's recommendations widely, through official websites, the...

Government should: Submit the UK's next (seventh) report to the UN by 17 May 2023. The UN will send a...

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: Ensure the governments of Northern Ireland and Wales regularly review the impact of stop and search powers on...

Government should: Investigate the disproportionate number of black people and people of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system across...

Government should: Consider intersectional discrimination when taking steps to combat racism and sectarianism. Provide information, in the UK's next State...

Government should: Increase efforts to investigate alleged hate crimes and to prosecute perpetrators. These efforts should include improved training for...

Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...

Government should: Cooperate with international human rights mechanisms. Pursue cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms (Côte...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 6 April 2020. The Committee recommends that the State...

Government should: Widely distribute the State Reports and the present recommendations. The Committee recommends that the State party’s reports be...

Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...

Government should: Consider ratifying the remaining human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...

Government should: Fully consult with civil society organisations when preparing the UK's next State Report, and in the follow-up to...

Government should: Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...

Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. The Committee...

Government should: Provide, in the UK's next State Report, updated and detailed information on the steps being taken to combat...

Government should: Ensure CERD applies in all territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. Fully consult with the Chagossians (Îlois)...

Government should: Set a legal time limit for immigration detention. Ensure detention is used only as a last resort, and...

Government should: (a) Ensure that the parents or guardians of intersex children receive impartial counselling and psychological and social support....

Government should: Consider ways to encourage migrant domestic workers to report abuse or ill-treatment to authorities, including giving migrant domestic...

Government should: Ensure that the CAT is made part of UK law. Tell the UN about any cases in which...

Government should: (a) Continue to improve conditions and reduce overcrowding in prisons and other detention facilities, including through the use...

Government should: (a) Ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated quickly and...

Government should: Set out in law the role and powers of the United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and its...

Government should: Collect and publish disaggregated data on all complaints and reports of torture or ill-treatment received by government authorities....

Government should: Repeal Section 134 (4) and (5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, which allow certain defences for torture....

Government should: Ensure that any future changes to human rights laws do not reduce the current legal protections against torture...

Government should: Use the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to help implemement the provisions of CEDAW. The Committee calls...

Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed information about all deaths in custody and the causes of those deaths....

Government should: Provide a written report on the steps it has taken to implement the recommendations in paragrapHs 13, 21(a)...

Governent should: Ratify international human rights instruments it has not yet agreed to be bound by, including the International Convention...

Government should: Share the recommendations of the Committee widely across all levels of government and public bodies, as well as...

Government should: (a) Ensure the law provides for 'no-fault' divorce and introduce a requirement that all religious marriages, including Islamic...

Government should: (a) Provide enough resources to effectively implement the Female Offender Strategy for England and Wales and ensure that...

Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...

Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Adapt the youth justice system in line with advice issued by...

Government should: (a) Develop compulsory training for public officials that covers the content of the CAT. (b) Ensure that all...

Government should: (a) Improve efforts to investigate claims of human trafficking, prosecute perpetrators and ensure that victims obtain compensation. Consider...

Government should: (a) Take urgent steps to provide redress, including compensation and rehabilitation, for victims identified by the Historical Institution...

Government should: (a) Take steps to address the low prosecution and conviction rates for domestic abuse and sexual violence. Ensure...

Government should: (a) Ensure that caseworkers properly consider statements from health professionals about torture victims and other people who are...

Government should: (a) Provide the UN with detailed data on asylum applications that involve torture claims and the outcomes of...

Government should: Consider changing the law to ensure that all victims of torture are able to access remedy and obtain...

Government should: (a) Consider creating a specialist unit in the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service to strengthen the use...

Government should: Ensure that all women and girls in the UK, including Northern Ireland, can access abortions in situations where...

Government should: (a) Promptly investigate cases of paramilitary violence, including against children, in Northern Ireland. Ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted...

Government should: Ensure that the use of electrical discharge weapons (tasers) follows the principles of necessity, subsidiarity, proportionality, advance warning...

Government should: (a) Urgently implement the Stormont House Agreement, which was adopted by the British and Irish Governments and the...

Government should: (a) Improve training for government officials who make decisions about statelessness. Carry out regular reviews of the officials’...

Government should: Review the ‘Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas,...

Government should: Immediately set up an inquiry into alleged acts of torture and ill-treatment of detainees held overseas committed by,...

Government should: Set up an independent public inquiry to investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment by UK staff in Iraq...

Government should: Take steps to prevent torture in any territory under the effective control of the State, not only in...

Government should: Respect the principles of the UN Charter. Respect the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United...

Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking (specifically of women and girls), and to support and rehabilitate victims. Strengthen...

Government should: Consider changing the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to protect the right to privacy. Ban mass surveillance and stop...

Government should: Ensure surveillance laws do not breach the rights to privacy, intimacy and freedom of expression. Ensure that the...

Government should: Align all surveillance laws with international human rights standards. Ensure all communications surveillance is necessary and proportionate. Bring...

Government should: Strengthen the protection of citizens, and their right to privacy, in the Investigatory Powers Bill (2016). Strengthen the...

Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and all forms of slavery. Continue efforts to fight human trafficking and all forms...

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, and ensure protection and support for victims. Strengthen the national framework to...

Government should: Consider aligning its corporate criminal liability law with international human rights law. Ensure UK companies operating abroad are...

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: Comply with international standards regarding detainees’ rights and the conditions of detention. Cydymffurfio gyda safonau rhyngwladol parthed hawliau...

Government should: To guarantee justice for all, ensure appropriate legal aid is available, particularly for the most marginalised groups in...

Government should: Take further action to return illicit funds and proceeds of corruption to their countries of origin. Cooperate with...

Government should: Speep up the investigation into allegations of British military personnel involvement in the ill-treatment of civilians and detainees...

Government should: Consider ending automatic life sentences for offenders aged under 18. Consider abolishing the mandatory imposition of life imprisonment...

Government should: Protect indigenous people's right to self-determination in their home territories, in line with the UN Charter. Enable indigenous...

Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...

Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal...

Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. In line with the recommendations of...

Government should: Consider changing the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Consider revising the minimum age of criminal responsibility...

Government should: Put an end to life sentences for minors, in line with the CRC. Abolish the life sentence for...

Government should: Provide coroners with all necessary resources to conduct prompt and impartial investigations into deaths linked to the Northern...

Government should: Do more to reduce violence and sexual exploitation against children. Take more measures to fight against sexual exploitation...

Government should: Continue improving the treatment of prisoners. Continue its efforts to improve treatment of inmates...

Government should: Remove the ban on prisoner voting, in line with the rulings of international courts. Revoke the blanket ban...

Government should: Review prison conditions to make them safer places. Consider developing an action plan to address increases in self-harm,...

Government should: Develop a plan to improve deteriorating conditions in UK prisons. Tackle rising assaults and killings among prisoners. Initiate...

Government should: Continue negotiating transitional justice issues in Northern Ireland, and put into practice transitional justice elements of the Stormont...

Government should: Update the 1988 Criminal Justice Act and ban all forms of torture, including removing so-called 'escape clauses'. Enact...

Government should: Consider including in the UK's next State Report what steps have been taken to identify risks of genocide,...

Government should: To protect the right to life, carefully assess selling arms to countries where they are likely to be...

Government should: Evaluate its anti-terrorism strategy, taking into account international human rights obligations, and assess its impacts on human rights....

Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures which target people or groups based on race, ethnic background or religion, including Muslims or...

Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....

Government should: Do more to tackle violence against women and girls. Exert more efforts to combat or to counter violence...

Government should: Consult on the possibility of a universal basic income, replacing the current social protection system. As a follow-up...

Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...

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: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...

Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...

Government should: Do more to promote racial equality and social inclusion in Northern Ireland's education system. Step up efforts to...

Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...

Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...

Government should: Adopt laws, especially in Northern Ireland, to tackle domestic violence. Ensure all cases of domestic violence are fully...

Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...

Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, and...

Government should: Ban the physical punishment of children to protect them from violence. Ban corporal punishment of children to ensure...

Government should: Consider changing laws on the physical punishment of children. Reconsider its position on the legality of corporal punishment...

Government should: Ban physical punishment in all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...

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 the family in all devolved administrations and overseas territories. Remove all legal defences such...

Government should: Review British immigration laws and ensure they are in line with the CRC. Reviewing the laws on immigration...

Government should: Take a joined-up approach to preventing violence against women and girls, including harmful practices. Ensure a holistic approach...

Government should: Make children’s rights the focus of climate change strategies and highlight the risks they face in the National...

Government should: Strengthen laws in relation to forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Strengthen its legislative framework by including penal...

Government should: Take further action to tackle domestic violence. Take steps to protect children from the negative impacts of domestic...

Government should: Continue efforts to tackle domestic violence throughout the UK. Continue its positive efforts to reduce domestic violence throughout...

Government should: Continue tackling discrimination and violence against women and girls. Continue efforts to combat discrimination on any ground and...

Government should: Combat violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Combat violence against women and girls, in particular...

Government should: Develop and put into practice joined-up strategies to combat child exploitation and abuse. Develop and implement comprehensive multisectoral...

Government should: (a) Ensure that women in abusive situations can receive payments under Universal Credit independent of their partners. (b)...

Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...

Government should: Ban all physical punishment of children, in line with the CRC. Take further actions in protecting the rights...

Government should: Fully investigate all cases of sexual violence against children by high-level officials, and prosecute the perpetrators. Complete the...

Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on the rights of rural women: (a) Take action to...

Government should: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...

Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...

Government should: Urgently tackle the ‘intolerance of childhood’ and negative public attitudes towards children, especially teenagers, in society and the...

Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...

Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...

Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...

Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...

Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...

Government should: Consult children on the voting age. If lowered, strengthen human rights education and early awareness of rights and...

Government should: Ensure its international development cooperation is aimed at strengthening the right to free compulsory primary education for all....

Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...

Government should: Adopt an Irish language act. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (see E/C.12/GBR/CO/5, para. 37) and recommends that...

Government should: Cut fees to make higher education more accessible, in accordance with capacity. Gradually introduce free higher education. The...

Government should: Ensure older people receive an adequate pension, care and treatment. Educate all health care workers on the rights...

Government should: Promote a full health service (including mental health) in line with the duty introduced by the Health and...

Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...

Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...

Government should: Take steps to ensure people belonging to ethnic minorities have full access to quality health care. Take steps...

Government should: The Northern Ireland Government should adopt a child rights indicator framework which should cover all CRC rights, and...

Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...

Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...

Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...

Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...

Government should: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...

Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...

Government should: Collect disaggregated employment and activity data on people from ethnic minority groups. Take further steps to tackle unemployment,...

Government should: Withdraw all reservations to the CRC (regarding the applicability of article 22 to the Cayman Islands, article 32...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...

Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratifying the International...

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

Government should: (a) Take further action to end all racist bullying and harassment in schools. Make schools collect data on...

Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...

Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...

Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...

Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...

Government should: (a) Align UK laws with the CRC so it can be enforced in UK courts and people can...

Government should: Revise local laws and the British Nationality Act in overseas territories to secure migrant children's right to a...

Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...

Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...

Government should: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...

Government should: (a) Ensure child protection authorities are informed when a parent is imprisoned, to prevent children being left unattended....

Government should ensure poverty is never the sole reason for removing a child from parental care, consider UN advice on...

Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...

Government should: (a) Tackle bullying and violence in schools, through teaching human rights, building respect for diversity and improving conflict-resolution...

Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...

Government should: (a) Collect and publish data on psychotropic drugs (Ritalin, Concerta etc.) prescribed to children. (b) Ensure drugs are...

Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...

Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...

Government should consider UN advice on children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...

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: Guarantee children’s right to freedom of movement and peaceful assembly by: (a) Banning the use of acoustic devices...

Government should: Abolish any legal obligation to attend collective worship in state-funded schools. Guarantee children's right to freely decide whether...

Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...

Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...

Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...

Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...

Government should: Update its common core document to the UN The Committee also invites the State party to submit an...

Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 14 January 2022. The Committee invites the State party...

Government should: Take steps to put into practice these recommendations. Make future state reports to the UN available in all...

Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to make the CRC and other human rights treaties a reality at...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure to allow children who feel their rights...

Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...

Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...

Government should: Always video record interviews with child victims/witnesses during investigation. Permit the interviews as evidence in court. The Committee...

Government should: Align the UK's juvenile justice systems in line with UN advice and: (a) Increase the age of criminal...

Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...

Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on children's right to rest, leisure, play and cultural life, ensure all...

Government should: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...

Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...

Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...

Government should: Implement the Committee's previous recommendations on abortion law in Northern Ireland, in line with provisions in the Good...

Government should: Do more to cut the prison population, while improving prisoner safety. Take concrete measures to reduce the current...

Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...

Government should: Legally protect people from multiple and intersectional discrimination, including on the grounds of migrant, refugee or other status....

Government should: Amend its abortion law. Guarantee women's right to reproductive and sexual autonomy without legalising selective abortion due to...

Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...

Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...

Government should: (a) Put disabled people's rights into practice across the UK, and make the CRPD part of UK (and...

Government should: Protect the family as a core unit of society. Provide protection to the family as a natural and...

Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...

Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and protecting child victims. Continue strengthening the positive measures taken to combat the crime...

Government should: Embed the rights of disabled women and girls into disability and gender equality policies. Fully consult on this...

Government should: Take further action to raise awareness to tackle negative stereotypes and prejudices against disabled people (especially those with...

Government should: Consult disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure all disabled children get an inclusive education in their own communities....

Government should: Establish and fund a structure for focal points to coordinate the implementation of CRPD across the UK. The...

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Promptly update the UK Department for International Development’s Disability Framework and...

Government should: Increase the availability of high-quality data disaggregated by: income, sex, age, gender, race, ethnic origin, migrant, asylum-seeking and...

Government should: Take further action, in consultation with disabled people's organisations, to guarantee accessibility regardless of impairment, remove restrictions of...

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 24 (2) (a) and (b) on the right to inclusive education. The...

Government should: (a) Produce a thorough plan for reducing the risk of disasters. Develop strategies to ensure disabled people can...

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) Raise legal standards for making digital information services accessible for all....

Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...

Government should: Withdraw its reservation to CRPD article 18 (liberty of movement and nationality). The Committee recommends that the State...

Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop programmes to make judges, prosecutors, police officers and prison staff...

Government should: Submit the UK's next State Report to the UN by 8 July 2023. The Committee requests the State...

Government should: Engage with the media to eliminate images that stereotype or objectify women, take steps to end negative gender...

Government should: Submit its next report to the Committee in March 2023, following the harmonised guidelines on reporting under international...

Government should: Submit its next report to the Committee in March 2023, following the harmonised guidelines on reporting under international...

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) Do more to encourage girls to study non-traditional subjects and courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics;...

Government should: Take specific steps to increase the numbers of women in general, and ethnic minority women and disabled women...

Government should: Share the recommendations widely among disabled people, their families and organisations, including in sign language and accessible formats,...

Government should: Involve, and provide funding for, disabled people's organisations in preparing the next periodic report. The Committee strongly encourages...

Government should: Implement the present recommendations and distribute them to members of Government and Parliament, relevant ministries, devolved administrations, overseas...

Government should: Set up a process for implementing and acting on the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...

Government should: Support the independent monitoring of the implementation of the CRPD across the UK, including by funding disabled people's...

Government should: Make ICESCR part of UK law. Ensure that where rights are violated, people can take legal action see...

Government should: Urgently amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland. Extend exceptions to the abortion ban to include cases of rape,...

Government should: (a) Raise the age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. Follow international standards for juvenile justice. (b)...

Government should: (a) Ensure any limits on fair trial guarantees for national security reasons (such as court hearings held without...

Government should: (a) Introduce legal time limits on immigration detention. Ensure detention is used as a last resort and is...

Government should: Take action to end physical punishment in all settings, including in the home, across the UK and all...

Government should: Fully apply the ban on refoulement (forcibly returning people to countries where they are likely to be persecuted),...

Government should: Review laws to repeal any possible justification for torture, in line with international standards (including ICCPR article 7)....

Government should: Take action to prevent suicides, including suicides and self-harm in custody, by: (a) tackling the root causes of...

Government should: Change laws that deny convicted prisoners the right to vote in order to comply with the ICCPR. The...

Government should: Review laws to ensure sufficient safeguards are in place regarding restrictions on re-entry and denial of citizenship on...

Government should: Review counter-terrorism laws and bring them into line with the ICCPR, including: (a) Consider revising the definition of...

Government should: Take action to tackle violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, by: (a) prioritising introducing domestic...

Government should: Increase efforts towards equal representation for women in the civil service and the judiciary. Implement the recommendations of...

Government should: (a) Remove non-statutory stop and search powers in Scotland and improve the process of selecting targets. Train law...

Government should: Do more to prevent and put an end to racism and xenophobia, including in the media and on...

Government should: (a) Review laws on intercepting and storing personal communications in line with the ICCPR, including article 17. Any...

Government should: Distribute widely the ICCPR, the UK state report and the UN's recommendations. he State party should disseminate widely...

Government should: (a) Urgently investigate events in Northern Ireland to prosecute perpetrators of human rights violations (in particular the right...

Government should: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...

Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...

Government should: In line with advice issued by the UN on women in conflict and post-conflict situations: a) Address obstacles...

Government should: (a) Ensure that vulnerable women can access employment opportunities, housing and social security so they don't need to...

Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...

Government should: Fully implement its laws on female genital mutilation (FGM) and take further measures to prosecute people who carry...

Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...

Government should: Ensure that women, particularly women in vulnerable situations such as disabled women, ethnic minority women, asylum-seeking and refugee...

Government should: Within one year, give an update on plans to implement the UN's recommendations on accountability for conflict-related violations...

Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...

Government should: Continue to tackle money laundering and tax evasion, particularly in its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and assess...

Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...

Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...

Government should: Make CEDAW part of UK and devolved law without delay to ensure all women in the UK are...

Government should: Review its reservations to the Convention and consider withdrawing them. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the...

Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 24 July 2020. The Committee requests that the State...

Government should (a) Ensure Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee appropriately balances security interests against accountability for human rights violations. Consider...

Government should: Adequately fund the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The State party should provide the Northern Ireland Human Rights...

Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...

Government should: Bring into force the outstanding provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to tackle socio-economic inequality and end intersectional...

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: Consider UN advice on the equal right of men and women to economic, social and cultural rights. The...

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: Review legal aid reforms to ensure everyone has access to justice and, where needed, free legal aid (especially...

Government should: Extend the national living wage to under 25s. Set it at a level which provides workers and their...

Government should: Use all available resources to make economic, social and cultural rights a reality for everyone. In line with...

Government should: (a) Assess how recent tax policy changes have affected human rights, including the rights of disadvantaged groups. Ensure...

Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...

Government should: Consider UN advice on business and economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee draws the attention of the...

Government should: (a) Set up clear regulations to ensure companies operating in the UK do not infringe economic, social and...

Government should: Hold a public consultation on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, and on the proposal for a...

Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...

Government should: Review the Trade Union Act 2016. Ensure all workers enjoy full trade union rights without interference. Implement the...

Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...

Government should: Reduce achievement gaps in education, particularly among children from low income families. Take further action to avoid segregating...

Government should: (a) Consult stakeholders on how to make civil and political rights a reality for everyone in the UK....

Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 30 June 2021. Update its common core document. The...

Government should: Share these recommendations widely. Consult with civil society organisations in the follow-up and before submitting the UK's next...

Government should: Develop and apply indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress on economic, social and cultural rights. Consider the UN...

Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...

Government should: Amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland in line with women's rights to health, life and dignity. Consider UN...

Government should: (a) Review conditions attached to social security benefits. Reverse the cuts introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012...

Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...

Government should: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...

Government should: (a) Ensure there is sufficient housing (especially social housing), particularly for the most disadvantaged groups, including those on...

Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...

Government should: Provide information on the impact of the national strategy on gender-based violence (particularly with regard to violence against...

Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....

Government should: Consider UN advice on the right to social security. The Committee draws the attention of the State party...

Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...

Government should: Involve all stakeholders in the drafting and adoption of the British Bill of Rights, especially members of poor,...

Government should: Ensure a new British Bill of Rights does not reduce the current human rights protections. Take all necessary...

Government should: Ensure any new Bill of Rights does not remove or weaken the current human rights protections. Ensure that...

Government should: Ensure any legal changes, such as a new Bill of Rights, maintain the same level of protections as...

Government should: Ensure any new human rights laws have the same legal effects and scope as the Human Rights Act....

Government should: Ensure any legal changes do not reduce the human rights protections provided by the Human Rights Act. Ensure...

Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...

Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...

Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...

Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...

Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...

Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...

Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...

Government should: Ensure any proposal for a new British Bill of Rights maintains and improves current human rights protections. Make...

Government should: Align all laws with international human rights standards. Align its norms to the human rights based approach in...

Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...

Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...

Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities. Review and strengthen current policies and initiatives...

Government should Stop putting pressure on mass media, for example by closing their bank accounts. Stop the pressure on mass...

Government should: Tackle religious hatred, discrimination, hostility and violence in both political discourse and in the media. Tackle advocacy of...

Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...

Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...

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 end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...

Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...

Government should: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...

Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...

Government should: Ensure any changes to human rights laws do not weaken human rights protections. Ensure that changes in the...

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...

Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...

Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...

Government should: Consider ratifying any outstanding human rights treaties. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments it had not yet...

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Ratify the International Convention for the...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....

Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....

Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Sign and accede to the International...

Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...

Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Ratify the International Convention for the...

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...

Government should: Involve civil society in decision-making processes, particularly regarding putting the present recommendations into practice. Listen to British human...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...

Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...

Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue its work on accession...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratification of the International...

Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...

Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...

Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...

Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...

Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....

Government should: (a) Remove laws allowing people to be detained and treated without their consent on the basis of their...

Government should: Tackle violence against women. Take further action to combat sexual exploitation and sexual crimes against children. Effectively fight...

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: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...

Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...

Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...

Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...

Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...

Government should: Ensure the welfare of all members of society, including migrants. Ensure the welfare of all segments of society...

Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...

Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CRPD Committee on progress in...

Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...

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: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...

Government should: Train public officials (particularly the police and the military) in human rights, including on the excessive use of...

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 end racial hatred, which leads to hate crimes. Take additional serious measures to eliminate race...

Government should: Monitor hate crime and discrimination cases, following the adoption of the Hate Crime Action Plan (2016). Continue to...

Government should: Do more to end incitement to hatred by some British tabloid newspapers, in line with authorities' obligations under...

Government should: Collect data to better understand the scale and severity of hate crimes, and to assess the impact of...

Government should: Collect data to better understand the scale and severity of hate crimes, and to assess the impact of...

Government should: Take further action to end hate crimes. Better identify potential targets and vulnerable communities, improve surveillance and do...

Government should: Do more to tackle the sharp increase in hate-related crimes, especially those involving young people. Take appropriate measures...

Government should: Continue promoting cultural understanding to end hate crime against social minorities. Continue to implement measures such as promoting...

Government should: Improve policies to tackle hate crime, particularly crimes motivated by race and religion. Share any successful strategies with...

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 hate speech, and to help migrants integrate into communities. Adopt measures to condemn racist...

Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...

Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....

Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...

Government should: Do more to end incitement to hatred within British mass media, in line with international standards. Take measures...

Government should: Work with parliamentarians, human rights institutions and civil society organisations to better protect ethnic and religious minorities, refugees...

Government should: Ensure the planned counter-extremism bill aligns with international law and does not single out certain organisations based on...

Government should: Guarantee the rights of refugees and migrants. Take further action to combat hate crime. Effectively guarantee the rights...

Government should: Ensure that when force is used in the fight against terrorism it respects the UN Charter and international...

Government should: Make human rights the focus of the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan. Adopt a rights-based approach to its forthcoming...

Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....

Government should: End discrimination against same-sex couples in Northern Ireland by aligning the law with the rest of the UK....

Government should: Take further action to combat increasing hate speech, islamophobia and hate crimes on the basis of race. Address...

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 end prejudices and punish crimes motivated by xenophobia. Continue strengthening measures to combat prejudices...

Government should: Do more to end racism and hate speech by encouraging dialogue and cooperation between different religions and nationalities....

Government should: Review the impact of the 2016 'Hate Crime Action Plan'. Review the approaches of criminal justice agencies to...

Government should: Strengthen laws to tackle racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes. Address racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes by...

Government should: Do more to support victims of discrimination and hatred, especially religious hatred, and to raise awareness of this...

Government should: Do more to end hate crime and xenophobia. Redoubling efforts and measures to combat hate crimes and xenophobia...

Government should: Take further action to end religious hate crime. Ensure minority groups can access justice. Adopt effective measures to...

Government should: Tackle the increase in violent hate crimes. Take further steps to halt and reverse the increase in the...

Government should: Assess the impact of the 'Hate Crime Action Plan'. Prepare a report on the impact of the “Hate...