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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Allow treaty bodies to hear individual communications on alleged human rights violations in the UK, as in article...

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

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

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 reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Consider...

Government should: Remove the declaration about interpretation of article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the 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: Continue efforts to submit overdue State Party Reports to UN treaty bodies. Continue efforts to ensure the submission...

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

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 the British Bill of Rights provides 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: Ratify the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Consider...

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

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

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

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 ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act so that it is in line with international human rights standards, 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) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 reform to the Human Rights Act 1998 does not weaken protections or limit people’s ability...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not reduce protection or access to the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Ban physical punishment in the family in all devolved administrations and overseas territories. Remove all legal defences such...

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 all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...

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

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

Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, 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: Submit its next report to the Committee in March 2023, following the harmonised guidelines on reporting under international...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: End Islamophobia and religious discrimination and intolerance. Eliminate Islamophobia and combat religious discrimination and intolerance...

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

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

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

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

Government should: Improve laws and policies to end and limit the increase in racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and anti-disabled crimes....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 to 14 years, in line with international standards. Raise the age of...

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 at least 14. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 women’s representation in political and public life including Parliament, the judiciary and decision making...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Keep taking action to end inequalities affecting minorities in accessing criminal justice, employment, health and education. Keep taking...

Government should: Keep promoting equal political, social and economic rights for ethnic minorities, especially women and girls. Continue efforts to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 trafficking and support their recovery Take further steps to improve the identification...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 pay and access to safe reproductive health services across the UK. Continue with legislative and policy...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Make the optional declaration under CERD article 14, recognising the Committee's ability to consider individual complaints. 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: 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: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...

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

Government should: Consult the public on plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and on the proposal for a new...

Government should: Ensure any budget cuts or legal changes to the mandates of the UK's national human rights institutions do...

Government should: Ensure governments across the UK and all overseas territories routinely collect and publish data disaggregated by ethnicity in...

Government should: (a) Investigate all reported racist hate crimes, prosecute perpetrators and provide remedies for victims. (b) Collect disaggregated data...

Government should: Remove its interpretative declaration on CERD article 4. The Committee also reiterates its recommendation that the State party...

Government should: Review the use of existing counter-terrorism measures (in particular the 'prevent duty' under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act...

Government should: Ensure members of ethnic minorities can access fair and effective legal aid across the UK and in all...

Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: (a) Increase the number of women in decision-making roles, in public and private sectors. (b) End the gender...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Raise legal standards for making digital information services accessible for all....

Government should: (a) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...

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

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

Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...

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

Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Review its employment policies to address the root causes of unemployment. Develop an action plan focusing specifically on...

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

Government should: (a) Reduce the use of temporary employment, precarious self-employment and 'zero-hours' contracts. Create opportunities offering security and protection...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Fully investigate cases of human trafficking and punish the perpetrators. Investigate thoroughly incidents of trafficking in human beings...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Introduce policies to prevent trafficking in women and girls. Guarantee a fair trial to victims of trafficking. Adopt...

Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 within British mass media, in line with international standards. Take measures...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government should: Take action to combat racism and hate crimes. Ensure victims can access redress and compensation. Adopt measures aimed...

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