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Government should: Ensure that the British Bill of Rights provides the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...

Government should: remain a member state of the Council of Europe and party to the European Convention on Human Rights....

Government should: Take steps to allow individual complaints under UN human rights treaties such as the Convention against Torture and...

Government should: Remove the declaration about interpretation of article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights...

Government should: Ensure that the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill is in line with the Stormont House Agreement and that independent...

Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act so that it is in line with international human rights standards, including by...

Government should: Continue efforts to submit overdue State Party Reports to UN treaty bodies. Continue efforts to ensure the submission...

Government should: Remain committed to fully putting into practice the European Convention on Human Rights. Remain committed to fully implement...

Government should: Ensure the proposed Bill of Rights does not weaken the Human Rights Act 1998. Take necessary measures to...

Government should: Bring all legislation on communication surveillance in line with international human rights standards; ensure all communications surveillance is...

Government should: Ensure that any amendments to the law provide the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...

Government should: Ensure that any future human rights laws comply with the duty under the Good Friday Agreement to fully...

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

Government should: Remove the declaration about interpretation of article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights...

Government should: Ensure that any reform to the Human Rights Act 1998 does not weaken protections or limit people’s ability...

Government should: Harmonise the core human rights treaties with domestic law. Harmonize the core human rights treaties into domestic law...

Government should: Maintain international obligations and standards in line with the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. Maintain...

Government should: Give resources to central, devolved and local authorities to put the Istanbul Convention into practice effectively. Dedicate sufficient...

Government should: Consider reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to remove the requirement for a diagnosis, “living in role” for...

Government should: Take steps to put the Istanbul Convention into practice across the UK and other UK territories. Take all...

Government should: Ensure that changes to the Human Rights Act do not weaken the current level of protection. Ensure that...

Government should: Fully implement and give effect to the European Convention on Human Rights in UK law. Ensure that the...

Government should: If the Human Rights Act 1998 is replaced or reformed, maintain and improve the level of human rights...

Government should: Reform national laws to include protection against gender-based discrimination. Undertake the necessary reforms to include protection against gender-based...

Government should: Ensure that any changes to human rights laws do not reduce the level of the protection provided by...

Government should: Stop the plan to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill that gives a lower level...

Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act to remove the requirement for diagnosis and introduce a process of self-determination. Introduce...

Government should: Reconsider replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights and commit to giving effect to...

Government should: Ensure that all new laws are in line with the UK’s international human rights obligations. Ensure that all...

Government should: Ensure that any future laws are as effective and broad in scope as the Human Rights Act. Ensure...

Government should: Agree to the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure.   The Committee recommends that the State party, in...

Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...

Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...

Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...

Government should: (a) Do more to identify child victims of trafficking and to ensure that child victims are referred to...

Government should: (a) Remove the ‘Hostile Environment’ policy and ensure children without regular residence status can get legal help, social...

Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...

Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...

Government should: (a) Do more to deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...

Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...

Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...

Government should: (a) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...

Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...

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

Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to put into practice the CRC and other human rights. The Committee...

Government should: Consider withdrawing the reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Consider...

Government should: Remove reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Withdraw reservations to...

Government should: Consider withdrawing the declaration about 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: Withdraw the declaration about the interpretation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All...

Government should: Continue reviewing the reservations on ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to ensure everyone can play a part...

Government should: Ratify international human rights instruments that are not yet ratified; allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Ratify the Optional Protocol...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Take steps to ratify the...

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Consider...

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

Government should: Submit an eighth periodic report by the date to be set by the Committee; the report should be...

Government should: Take steps to fully put into practice all of the recommendations, and share a child-friendly version of them...

Government should: Ensure that any laws that replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 provide at least the same level...

Government should: Commit to continuing to incorporate ECHR rights and provisions. Commit to continued domestic incorporation of ECHR rights and...

Government should: End racism; train law enforcement officers in human rights, discrimination and hate speech; punish anyone who commits racist,...

Government should: End the disproportionate use of force against members of minority groups, as reported to the United Nations. Put...

Government should: Keep doing more to make prison conditions better. Continue efforts to improve conditions in prisons...

Government should: Investigate mistreatment of prisoners and misuse of force in detention, and hold those responsible to account. Investigate ill-treatment...

Government should: End Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention, as recommended by human rights bodies, and ensure he gets compensation, and guarantee...

Government should: End violence and overcrowding in prisons and stop jailing disproportionate numbers of people from minority ethnic groups. Put...

Government should: Make prisons safer and improve prison conditions to deal with self-harm, suicide and overcrowding. Improve prison safety and...

Government should: Take action to stop people being detained based on their appearance or because they are members of particular...

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 Islamophobia and religious discrimination and intolerance. Eliminate Islamophobia and combat religious discrimination and intolerance...

Government should: Put into practice international recommendations about remove the interpretative declaration under article 4 of the International Convention on...

Government should: Do more to deal with discrimination and prejudice towards racial, ethnic and religious minorities, including Muslim minorities. Improve...

Government should: Improve equality and anti-discrimination laws and policies Reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and inequality...

Government should: Improve laws tackling discrimination of people of African and Asian descent. Strengthen laws that combat racial profiling and...

Government should: End deep-rooted racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, and all hate crimes based on ethnic, racial, cultural or religious...

Government should: Find and deal with gaps in hate crime laws to better tackle with racist and xenophobic speech and...

Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures and stop them having any discriminatory and disproportionate impact on racial, ethnic and religious minorities....

Investigate members of the British military who have committed serious crimes in overseas military operations, including killing civilians, torture and...

Government should: Ensure laws dealing with the legacy of the Troubles are in line with the UK’s human rights obligations;...

Government should: Hold media outlets accountable if they provoke riots, violence and terrorism. Ensure the accountability of media outlets under...

Government should: Stop all forms of support for terrorism, including fundraising on UK territory. Stop all forms of involvement in...

Government should: Stop UK nationals from travelling to other countries as terrorist fighters.   Prevent the flow of new waves...

Government should: Stop using ‘fighting terrorism’ to justify violating Syrian sovereignty; bring back to the UK any UK nationals who...

Government should: Ensure that police use of force is limited in a clear way and that these limits are followed....

Government should: End the situation where British military forces are protected from being held responsible for war crimes and other...

Government should: Run an independent investigation into ‘whitewashing’, where war crimes by members of the British armed forces abroad may...

Government should: Train law enforcement officials about using force proportionately, especially when engaging with minority groups. Continue training of law...

Government should: Train police officers on the rules for the treatment of prisoners (the Mandela Rules). Incorporate the minimum rules...

Government should: Ensure that individuals are not targeted by the police based on their perceived race or ethnicity. Address concerns...

Government should: Keep doing more to tackle hate crime, and share information about the best ways to do this with...

Government should: Deal with negative attitudes and behaviours rooted in colonialism, and deal with the causes of racism, xenophobia and...

Government should: Take steps to address institutional racism, including by removing barriers so that minority racial and ethnic communities enjoy...

Government should: Remove barriers in society so that minority ethnic communities can enjoy human rights without discrimination. Remove structural barriers...

Government should: Keep improving approaches to tackling hate crimes, particularly against racial and religious minorities. Continue to refine its policies...

Government should: Keep taking action to stop discrimination, achieve equality and remove barriers that prevent racial and ethnic minorities from...

Government should: Take steps to combat racism, hate crimes and Islamophobia. Adopt measures aiming at combating racism, hate crimes and...

Government should: Keep strengthening national human rights organisations, in line with the Paris Principles. Continue to strengthen the functioning of...

Government should: Continue updating action plans on tackling hate crime and put them into practice effectively. Continue updating and ensure...

Government should: Keep the current level of protection provided by the Human Rights Act of 1998, including the rights of...

Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...

Government should Not replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 with more limited laws, but instead keep the level of...

Government should: Ensure that any reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not reduce protection or access to the...

Government should: Improve the status of ratified human rights treaties in domestic law. Enhance the status of the ratified human...

Government should: Ensure that any changes to the Human Rights Act do not reduce access to justice. Ensure that any...

Government should: Develop broad policies and practices that end discrimination against minorities. Advance comprehensive policies and practices to eliminate discrimination...

Government should: Do more to stop racism and discrimination on the grounds of race. Scale up efforts in ensuring the...

Government should: Remove barriers in society that stop racial and ethnic minorities from enjoying the same human rights without discrimination....

Government should: Do more to stop neo-Nazi activity, discrimination based on race or nationality, and respond properly to antisemitic incidents...

Government should: Do more to end racism, racial discrimination, Islamophobia and hate crimes, including by improving laws. Strengthen efforts, including...

Government should: Act urgently to stop violence, discrimination and hate speech violating trans people’s rights and dignity; change any law...

Government should: Do more to tackle hate crime, particularly where it is motivated by race or religion. Continue to refine...

Government should: Do more to stop the increase in violent and racially motivated hate crimes and improve current policies and...

Government should: Take action against all forms of hate crime and racism, especially against people of African descent. Put in...

Government should: Deal with racial discrimination, antisemitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate crimes using the law and the justice system. Address...

Government should: Take action to deal with structural racial discrimination. Take concrete steps in addressing structural forms of racial discrimination...

Government should: Keep trying to to tackle hate crimes, by taking steps to discourage hate speech and racism. Continue its...

Government should: Take action against public displays of racism and intolerance based on ethnicity and nationality. Take effective measures to...

Government should: Do more to stop hate crimes which became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take stronger action to...

Government should: Do more to tackle racism, intolerance, xenophobia, religious hatred and related crimes. Take further measures to strengthen countering...

Government should: Ensure that national laws are in line with the international laws that deal with tackling racial discrimination. Ensure...

Government should: Prosecute hate crimes and deal with Islamophobic incidents. Prosecute hate crimes and address incidents of Islamophobia...

Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...

Government should: (a) Reduce the number of deaths of infants and children, including among boys in the Overseas Territories; address...

Government should: (a) Focus on the best interests of the child in all policies and activities that affect children, including...

Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...

Children aged 16 and 17 are not always protected as children, and marriage under the age of 18 is still...

Government should: Ensure all children can: (a) Safely make complaints about violence, abuse, discrimination and other violations of their rights,...

Government should: (a) Hold businesses responsible for meeting legal standards, including on international and national human rights, labour and the...

Government should: Reintroduce the target of giving 0.7 per cent of gross national income to overseas development and ensure that...

Government should: (a) Introduce a strategy to raise public awareness of children’s rights, making sure to involve children; (b) Train...

Government should: (a) Give national human rights institutions and Children’s Commissioners the powers and resources they need to monitor children’s...

Government should: a) Improve the way that information on children is collected, in all areas of their lives, and ensure...

Government should: Take steps to ensure that children’s rights are considered in all budgeting decisions, and: (a) Set up a...

Government should: Introduce new structures at all levels, such as ministerial leads, with responsibility for putting into practice the rights...

Government should: a) Plan ways to fully put the CRC into practice in all areas, and ensure that children can...

Government should: (a) Ensure that all children, including younger children, disabled children and children in care, can have a say...

Government should: a) Remove barriers, improve legal routes and make it simpler for all children to get residence status and...

Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...

Government should: (a) Ensure that the best interests of the child are the priority in any decisions about care, including...

Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...

Government should: (a) Do more to help parents and carers balance their work and family responsibilities, including by providing enough...

Government should: Do more to investigate any allegation of misconduct by the UK military or support investigations of others into...

Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...

Government should: (a) Protect children from gang-related violence and knife crime and deal with the problem by: • dealing with...

Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...

Government should: (a) Ban corporal punishment in all settings and remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England and...

Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...

Government should: (a) Do more to ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...

Government should: (a) Do more to prevent non-statutory stop-and-search checks being used against children; ban their use in Northern Ireland;...

Government should: (a) Do more to protect children’s right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, including by removing parts...

Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...

Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...

Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies should consider removing their reservations to articles 22, 32 and 37 (c) of the CRC....

Government should: Ensure the children’s rights set out in the CRC and its protocols become a reality when the 2030...

Government should: Ensure that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda is in line with the UK’s obligations under...

Government should: Remove the reservation to article 59 of the Istanbul Convention, so that all migrant women receive the same...

Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...

Government should: Strengthen and protect the economic and social rights of migrants. Strengthen and safeguard the economic and social rights...

Government should: Remove parts of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) that are not in line with the 1951...

Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities. Continue efforts to eliminate all forms of...

Government should: Uphold and improve laws protecting LGBTQI+ people, especially transgender people. Uphold and strengthen legal protections for LGBTQI+ persons,...

Government should: Increase protection from sexual harassment in the workplace for disabled women and LGBTIQ workers, in line with the...

Government should: Consider moving towards the implementation of the action plan for LGBTI people, and ban conversion practices. Consider moving...

Government should: Ban conversion practices for all LGBTQI+ people. Ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQI+ persons...

Government should: Combat media disinformation about the LGBTQI+ community. Combat media disinformation about the LGBTQI+ community...

Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion therapy for all LGBTIQ+ people of all ages. Adopt legislation to ban all...

Government should: Introduce a law banning conversion practices in all forms and settings.   Adopt legislation to ban all conversion...

Government should: Defend and improve laws protecting the rights of asylum seekers and migrant workers in line with international law,...

Government should: Ensure migrant workers are not vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by employers and the UK visa system. Take...

Government should: Keep fighting the discrimination faced by transgender people by expanding the planned ban on conversion practices to include...

Government should: Improve safety in prisons; deal with problems in immigration detention, including putting a legal time limit on immigration...

Government should: Amend asylum laws to explicitly allow family reunification. Amend asylum laws to explicitly provide for family reunification...

Government should: End the plan to transfer asylum seekers to other countries, which violates international law. Stop plans to transfer...

Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is implemented in line with international refugee and human rights conventions...

Government should: Halt plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories. Halt its plans to transfer asylum-seekers to other territories (Iran...

Government should: Improve conditions in detention centres for asylum seekers, in line with international human rights standards. Improve humanitarian conditions...

Government should: Ensure that all migrants are treated in the same way when arriving in the UK, and ensure they...

Government should: Introduce a legal time limit on the detention of migrants before deportation. Introduce a general statutory time limit...

Government should: Take action to end abuse and exploitation in immigration by respecting relevant human rights standards, in line with...

Government should: Make it easier for migrants and asylum seekers to get suitable legal advice before decisions are made on...

Government should: Change the Domestic Abuse Act to ensure protection and support for migrant women. Revise the Domestic Abuse Act...

Government should: Stop violations of the rights of migrants and refugees. Put an end to the violation of rights of...

Government should: Change immigration law and policy to allow for family reunification for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Amend the immigration regulations...

Government should: Review immigration law so that it facilitates family reunification for unaccompanied refugee children, putting the best interests of...

Government should: Ensure that asylum seekers are detained only as a last resort, and introduce a maximum legal detention period....

Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at...

Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 across the UK. Consider raising the age...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years, in line with international standards. Raise the age of...

Government should: Consider raising the minimum age of marriage to at least 18 across the UK. Consider further measures to...

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

Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the family, to ensure that they are fully protected...

Government should: Ban corporal punishment of children, in line with the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the...

Government should: Put the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into practice by introducing a strategy to end...

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

Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...

Government should: Introduce a digital inclusion strategy for children and young people to promote online safety and sustainable inclusion. Develop...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Raise the age of criminal responsibility, which stands at ten at the...

Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people to ensure that they can have decent work and equal pay....

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 inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...

Government should: Remove barriers in society so that ethnic minority communities can enjoy all human rights without discrimination. Intensify the...

Government should: Consider doing more to ensure that ethnic minorities enjoy human rights. Consider paying necessary attention to promote the...

Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...

Government should: Improve awareness-raising campaigns to end stereotypes and prejudice towards disabled people. Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns aimed at eliminating negative...

Government should: Improve awareness-raising campaigns to end prejudice and stereotypes about disabled people. Continue and strengthen its awareness raising campaigns...

Government should: Improve laws to ensure quality education for all children in education, especially disabled children. Further strengthen laws that...

Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people, to ensure decent work and equal pay for work of equal...

Government should: Use the human rights model of disability in all laws and policies relating to disabled children and young...

Government should: Introduce new ways to improve food security, in particular for young children, adolescents and disabled people. Advance measures...

Government should: Provide support for disabled people in rural areas. Provide support accessible to people with disabilities at the rural...

Government should: Do more to protect the rights of women, disabled people and LGTBI people and take action to prevent...

Government should: Introduce an employment policy specifically for disabled people. Develop an effective employment policy, specifically designed for people with...

Government should: Increase formal employment opportunities for women and disabled people, and ensure equal pay for work of equal value....

Government should: Pass laws to ban corporal punishment of children in every setting. Enact legislation which explicitly prohibit corporal punishment...

Government should: Review and remove any law that discriminates against migrant groups or that limits the rights of asylum seekers,...

Government should: (a) Strengthen action to ensure quality education for ethnic minority children, especially Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children; children...

Government should: (a) Effectively address structural inequalities and discriminatory barriers in social factors that influence health outcomes, including climate change...

Government, including the governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Provide adequate and culturally appropriate accommodation for Gypsy, Traveller,...

Government should: Take all steps to ensure affordable, adequate housing for ethnic minority households, including social housing. It should also...

Government, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic...

Government should: (a) Revise laws and policies and stop using practices that cause particular impact among ethnic groups. This includes...

Government should: Revise the Contest and Prevent counter-terrorism strategies, including the "prevent duty". This should be done to eliminate any...

Government should: (a) Take steps to ensure stop and search powers are used in a lawful and fair way and...

Government should: Take all necessary steps, including reviewing and amending the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the...

Government, including in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the overseas territories and the Crown dependencies, should: Increase its action to improve...

Government should: Take steps to combat the discrimination and inequalities faced by ethnic minorities, to remove barriers to rights and...

Government should: Take effective measures to prevent and combat racism and racial discrimination, hatred and violence in sports. It should...

Government should: Take strong action to stop racist paramilitary violence and intimidation against minorities and migrants, especially in Northern Ireland....

Government should take all actions necessary to prevent and combat racist hate crimes and hate speech. In particular, Government should:...

Government should put in place or improve its policies and plans for tackling racial discrimination and racial inequality in all...

Government should: Implement the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions' recommendations to ensure its National Human Rights Institutions follow...

Government, including devolved governments and overseas territories and Crown dependencies, should: (a) Put in place comprehensive anti-discrimination and equality laws...

Government should: Review and repeal any laws that lower human rights protections in line with the CERD. Any changes to...

Government should: Take all necessary steps to make the CERD's principles and provisions fully enforceable under domestic law in England,...

Government should: Ensure the devolved governments collect and publish similar statistics the rights of ethnic minority groups in all areas...

Government should: Ensure ethnic minorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the overseas territories and Crown dependencies have fair...

Government should: Accept and implement all recommendations from the 2020 Windrush Lessons Learned Review. It must do all it can...

Government should: Submit its combined twenty-seventh to thirtieth periodic reports, as one document, by 6 April 2028. It should follow...

Government should: Note the importance of the recommendations in paragraphs 32 (Racial profiling, stop-and-search and excessive use of force by...

Government should: Within one year of the current recommendations being issued, provide information about implementing the recommendations in paragraphs 30...

Government should: Change laws that stop convicted prisoners from voting to make sure the government meets the requirements for reform...

Government should: Make its reports on the CERD public and accessible once they have been submitted. Share the Committee's final...

Government should: Consult and engage more with civil society organisations working on human rights, especially those fighting racial discrimination. This...

Government should: Include information in its next periodic report about outcomes of implementing the programme of activities for the International...

Government should: Give effect to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (adopted in September 2001 by the World Conference...

Government should: Implement the optional declaration in Article 14 of the CERD that recognises the Committee's competence to receive and...

As all human rights are interconnected, Government should: Consider ratifying the international human rights treaties it has not yet ratified....

Government should: (a) Work harder to acknowledge past wrong and raise awareness of colonialism and the trafficking of enslaved people....

Government should: Make sure the CERD applies to all its territories, including the British Indian Ocean Territory. It should fully...

Government should: Take all action necessary to tackle the causes and legacy of forced assimilation faced by Gypsy and Traveller...

The Committee will send the Government its next list of issues in 2030. The Government must reply within a year....

The Government is requested to provide, by 29 March 2027, information on implementing the recommendations in paragraphs 11, 29, and...

Government should: Meet obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and do not take any action that undermines the right to...

Government should: Keep putting into practice the recommendations of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Continue its efforts...

Government should: Develop and implement public awareness campaigns on the human rights of trans people, including dealing with misinformation and...

Government should: Do more to protect people from gender-based violence. Further promote efforts to protect persons from gender-based violence...

Government should: Protect vulnerable groups and minorities from hate speech, keep developing remedies. Continue developing effective remedies to protect vulnerable...

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

Government should: not send asylum seekers to Rwanda and end the Asylum Partnership Agreement, which is out of line with...

Government should: (a) Review laws to identify any gaps or conflicts with the ICCPR. Also, ensure full enforcement of all...

Government should: Stop the practice of detaining asylum-seekers and do not discriminate against any refugee based on how they arrive...

Government should: Ensure asylum seekers are treated in a way that is in line with the international human rights and...

Government should: Ensure that the Nationality and Borders Act is fully in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention. Ensure that...

Government should: Protect refugees and asylum seekers in line with international standards and conventions. Establish international refugee protection asylum seeker...

Government should: Ensure that refugees are not discriminated against based on how they arrive in the country. Ensure that all...

Government should: Do not return refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin and ban collective deportations. Respect the...

Government should: Ensure migrants and minority ethnic groups enjoy the right to health and a decent standard of living.  ...

Government should: Withdraw its remaining reservations to articles 10, 14, and 24 of the ICCPR. This will ensure the ICCPR...

Government should: Widely share the ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol which aims to abolish the death penalty. It should...

Government should: Increase efforts to remove all combustible cladding from buildings where it risks lives. It should also protect the...

Government should: (a) Ban the physical punishment of children. Remove the common law defence of 'reasonable chastisement' and strengthen promotion...

Government should: Review and change its laws, including the Public Order Act 2023, to ensure people can enjoy their right...

Government should: Take all necessary steps to ensure everyone enjoys the right to privacy and freedom of expression. This aligns...

Government should: Work harder to improve access to justice by providing free legal aid to all who cannot afford it....

Government should: (a) Review its laws around the denial of citizenship on terrorism grounds to ensure it includes proper safeguards....

Government should: Fully protect stateless people living in the UK in line with international standards, including the 1951 Refugee Convention...

Government should: Set a legal limit on immigration detention. It should be a last resort, for the shortest time possible....

Government should: (a) Quickly remove laws, including in the Illegal Migration Act 2023, that discriminate against migrants and that seek...

Government should: (a) Align its anti-human trafficking laws with international standards. This includes reforming the National Referral Mechanism and ensuring...

Government should: Remove laws and practices that allow for non-consensual, involuntary or compulsory treatment or detention of disabled people because...

Government should increase efforts to ensure conditions in detention align with international human rights standards, including the United Nations Standard...

Government should, in line with the Human Rights Committee's general comment No.36 (2018): (a) Make sure that laws and procedures...

Government should: Review its counter-terrorism laws. They must comply with the ICCPR and the principles of legality, certainty, predictability, and...

Government should: Quickly review the 2019 Principles Relating to the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees. It must update them to...

Government should: Review its laws, including the Criminal Justice Act 1988, to remove any possible defences for torture in line...

Government should continue work to improve access to legal, effective, safe, confidential and equal access to abortion for women and...

Government should continue work to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic and sexual violence. It should ensure comprehensive...

Government should: Keep working to ban conversion therapy, including in Northern Ireland. It should also remove unnecessary legal requirements for...

Government should: (a) Do more to stop hate crime by passing laws to make sure that laws prohibiting hate crime...

Government should: (a) Do more to end all racial and ethnic discrimination. This includes in particular systemic discrimination against Gypsies,...

Government should: Investigate, prosecute and issue sanctions as necessary for all violations by British officials and armed forces, including overseas....

Government should: Remove or reform the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. The Government should adopt independent, transparent,...

Government should: Implement the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions' recommendations to ensure that its National Human Rights Institutions...

Government should: Do more to enforce provisional measures and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Strengthen measures to...

Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...

Government should: Keep taking action to deal with the differences in experiences of ethnic groups in criminal justice, employment, mental...

Government should: Strengthen the implementation of programmes and policies for providing effective access to health care for women belonging to...

Government should: Continue efforts to identify and eliminate barriers to access to health and services for persons with disabilities. Continue...

Government should: Remove structural barriers to racial and ethnic minority community, equal and non-discrimination enjoyment of human rights, including the...

Government should: Improve the way laws and institutions protect the environment, especially in light of the right to a healthy...

Government should: Do more to ensure that ethnic minorities and marginalised groups can access healthcare. Strengthen the implementation of programmes...

Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...

Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...

Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...

Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...

Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...

Government should: Increase opportunities for women to gain access to formal employment with equal pay for work of equal value....

Government should: Make sure that the recent commitment that women in Northern Ireland can access abortion is put into practice....

Government should: Do more to deal with racial inequalities in criminal justice, employment, mental health and education. Enhance efforts to...

Government should: Do more to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, including providing enough resources for this purpose. Accelerate efforts...

Government should: Speed up and take more action to respond to climate change and ensure climate justice, in line with...

Government should: Do more to stop racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination against black and other ethnic minorities in schools....

Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...

Government should: Ensure that all children have equitable access to education in state schools, and deal with online and offline...

Government should: Keep improving laws and policies to ensure inclusive education for disabled children. Continue its efforts towards developing comprehensive...

Government should: Take action so that everyone can access quality education opportunities at all levels. Undertake deliberate and robust measures...

Government should: Keep revising and strengthening laws to improve access to healthcare for women and girls. Continue to address and...

Government should: Do more to ensure equal access to healthcare. Strengthen measures taken to ensure equal access to healthcare...

Government should: Ensure equal pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...

Government should: Protect and give effect to trans people’s right to health by increasing the capacity of gender identity healthcare...

Government should: Ensure equal access to abortion across Northern Ireland. Ensure equal access to abortion across Northern Ireland...

Government should: Ensure that women in Northern Ireland can access the same standard of safe abortion services as women in...

Government should: Enhance efforts to further narrow the gender pay gap. Enhance efforts to further narrow the gender pay gap...

Government should: Ensure that workplaces are inspected to make sure conditions are good and to prevent discrimination. Strengthen the labour...

Government should: Take action to reach and go beyond the UK’s self-defined emission reduction targets. Fully implement and go beyond...

Government should: Give potential victims of human trafficking information about their rights, do more to identify victims, and give them...

Government should: Support the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. Promote policies to support the family as...

Government should: Take steps to ensure journalists are safe, investigate attacks on journalists, and put into practice the UN Plan...

Government should: Do more to protect civil society, including removing laws that may restrict the rights of association and peaceful...

Government should: Protect citizens’ long-held right to peaceful protest when introducing new laws on public order. Maintain its robust tradition...

Government should: Keep working with the Media Freedom Coalition to defend media freedom at home and abroad, and improve the...

Government should: Do more to deal with antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment by publicly speaking out against hate speech and violence...

Government should: Keep taking action to ensure a gender balance in political and public life, particularly in Northern Ireland. Continue...

Government should: Ensure that any reform of the 1998 Human Rights Act does not reduce levels of protection or legal...

Government should: Take steps to reduce rates of racially motivated hate crimes and discrimination faced by people of African descent...

Government should: Do not adopt the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which stops people from being held responsible...

Government should: Speed up efforts to carry out the 20 actions recommended in the Agenda towards Transformative Change for Racial...

Government should: Stop using the justice system for the theft of the 31 tons of gold belonging to the Venezuelan...

Government should: Do more to investigate claims of human trafficking, and improve training for law enforcement officers, prison staff and...

Government should: Do more to deal with human trafficking and slavery. Intensify efforts to combat human trafficking and all forms...

Government should: End trafficking of people, women and girls especially women and girls, and support victims. Put an end to...

Government should: Introduce policies, and provide funding for, professional skills training aimed at, reducing income inequality and making more opportunities...

Government should: Keep doing more to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Continue its work on strengthening measures for the...

Government should: Make it compulsory for companies to report on gaps between the pay of different ethnic groups. Make pay...

Government should: Promise to set up a national program aimed at stopping women and girls being trafficked for sexual or...

Government should: Ensure that victims of trafficking have information about their rights and what support they can get soon after...

Government should: Tackle human trafficking and sexual exploitation properly. Effectively combat human trafficking and sexual exploitation...

Government should: Ensure that anti-trafficking laws are in line with obligations under international law, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress...

Government should: Do more to tackle human trafficking, especially of women and girls. Strengthen efforts to combat human trafficking, especially...

Government should: Do more to identify victims of trafficking and support their recovery Take further steps to improve the identification...

Government should: Keep tackling human trafficking and protect and help victims of trafficking. Continue efforts aimed at combatting human trafficking...

Government should: Do more to identify victims of human trafficking and forced labour, give them access to legal and psychological...

Government should: Do more to tackle human trafficking and protect victims of trafficking. Scale up efforts in combating human trafficking...

Government should: Do more to investigate claims of human trafficking; train law enforcement officers, prison personnel and others who may...

Government should: Review the laws on violence against women to protect and support women migrants, including those without access to...

Government should: Ensure that all cases of violence, especially sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated effectively; train judges,...

Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...

Government should: Keep taking action to prevent violence against women and girls. Continue its efforts to combat violence against women...

Government should: Take action to improve data collection on gender-based violence, including on how it affects disabled people. Take measures...

Government should: Take steps to increase prosecution and conviction rates in domestic abuse cases including by ensuring that all gender-based...

Continue addressing violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Continue combating violence against women and girls in particular...

Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Consider raising the minimum age of criminal...

Government should: Take diverse actions to prevent violence against women, including improving reporting systems, increasing conviction rates and providing targeted...

Government should: Take action to increase women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...

Government should: Keep working to update the Gender Recognition Act in line with international human rights standards, including recognising trans...

Government should: Take action to increase prosecution and conviction rates for domestic violence. Take effective measures to address low prosecution...

Government should: Protect all women and girls equally from violence. Ensure all women and girls are equally protected from violence...

Government should: Do more to prevent forced marriages. Redouble efforts to fight against forced marriages...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of...

Government should: Take urgent action to end corporal punishment of children and raise the age of criminal responsibility in line...

Government should: Do more to integrate the Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law. Take further steps...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards, and stop the use of isolation measures...

Government should: Look at reviewing the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Evaluate revising the minimum age...

Government should: Consider banning solitary confinement of juveniles. Consider prohibiting the use of solitary confinement for juveniles...

Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, put child justice standards into practice and ban...

Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action, and do more to reach net-zero emissions targets no...

Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...

Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...

Government should: Respect the rights of parents to raise and educate their children, in line with the Convention on the...

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to...

Government should: Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and do more to reach net zero no later...

Government should: Introduce a national anti-poverty strategy and end child poverty. Develop a comprehensive nationwide anti-poverty strategy and eliminate child...

Government should: Promote gender equality and ensure women are free from all discrimination and violence. Promote gender equality and ensure...

Government should: Keep doing more to increase opportunities for women to find and undertake formal employment. Continue taking additional measures...

Government should: Take more action against the harmful effects of fracking, environmental pollution and climate change, so everyone can enjoy...

Government should: Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling wars and conflicts. Stop funding disinformation programmes aimed at fuelling and...

Government should: Stop using human rights to justify interfering in the affairs of other countries. Stop interfering in the internal...

Government should: Deal comprehensively with the UK’s colonial legacy, including by issuing apologies and compensation for the killing of innocent...

Government should: Stop granting new permissions for new oil and gas exploration by way of an immediate moratorium. Establish an...

Government should: Keep taking action to stop UK military equipment and arms going to places where there is a risk...

Government should: Ensure that financial institutions and other businesses are respectable and accountable, in line with the recommendations of the...

Government should: Introduce laws on doing business in areas where conflicts are taking place; advise businesses on respecting human rights...

Government should: Ensure that the arms sector does business responsibly, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human...

Government should: Stop using financial sanctions and other similar measures which are not in line with international law and the...

Immediately stop applying one sided economic policies such as sanctions against developing countries. Immediately lift unilateral coercive measures against developing...

Government should: Don’t respond to one-sided economic policies of other countries. Avoid contributing to gross human rights violations of human...

Government should: Make the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment part of law in the whole UK. Incorporate...

Government should: Introduce or amend laws to create a right for everyone to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and...

Government should: Deal with all issues related to the Chagos archipelago through inclusive talks with all concerned. Resolve all outstanding...

Government should: Make education, employment and healthcare easier to access for women and girls in remote rural areas. Make education,...

Government should: Ensure women in rural areas have a say in policy making, responding to disasters and climate change. Ensure...

Government should: Fully put into practice the laws on female genital mutilation (FGM) and prosecute anyone responsible for carrying out...

Government should: Ensure that all domestic violence cases are fully investigated and prosecuted and that the authorities have the training...

Government should: Keeping working to protect women’s rights.   Continue efforts towards ensuring the protection of women rights...

Government should: Keep working internationally to promote and implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Continue...

Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...

Government should: Do more to protect women from harassment at work and promote access to employment for women from marginalised...

Government should: Ensure that women and girls from all ethnic groups can take part meaningfully in political and public life....

Government should: Ensure that changes to tax and benefits policies do not have disproportionately negative effects on older women. Apply...

Government should: Ensure victims of domestic violence and their families can access support and protection from further abuse. Take measures...

Government should: Update the law to end gender discrimination in employment, including pay gaps and access to fund enforcement bodies....

Government should: Ensure that women, including women from ethnic minorities are involved in decision-making at all levels. Continue measures to...

Government should: Review the Domestic Abuse Act to support and protect women and girls, whatever their immigration status is. Review...

Government should: Extend the Equality Act 2010 so that it applies in Northern Ireland and protects women there. Extend the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

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 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. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...

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

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

Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking in women and girls. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to identify...

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

Government should: Take further action to end prejudices and punish crimes motivated by xenophobia. Continue strengthening measures to combat prejudices...

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: Strengthen the National Referral Mechanism to identify and support human trafficking victims. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to...

Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking, and ensure protection and support for victims. Strengthen the national framework to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Monitor the implementation of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, including its affect on combating trafficking in women and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governent should: Consider UN advice on the right to just and favourable working conditions. The Committee draws the attention of...