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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: Do more to reduce violence and sexual exploitation against children. Take more measures to fight against sexual exploitation...
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...
Government should: Make human rights the focus of the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan. Adopt a rights-based approach to its forthcoming...
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: 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: 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: Protect the family as a core unit of society. Provide protection to the family as a natural and...
Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...
Government should: Do more to end hate crime and xenophobia. Redoubling efforts and measures to combat hate crimes and xenophobia...
Government should: Tackle discrimination against women, particularly in the labour market, and the gender pay gap. Address the problem of...
Government should: Combat violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Combat violence against women and girls, in particular...
Government should: Take a joined-up approach to preventing violence against women and girls, including harmful practices. Ensure a holistic approach...
Government should: Do more to tackle violence against women and girls. Exert more efforts to combat or to counter violence...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...
Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...
Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...
Government should: Develop policies to aid social integration, especially for migrants and refugees. Develop social integration policies, especially for migrants...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...
Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...
Government should: Continue promoting the rights of migrants in the UK. Continue and strengthen the promotion of the rights of...
Government should: Do more to support victims of discrimination and hatred, especially religious hatred, and to raise awareness of this...
Government should: Take further action to end religious hate crime. Ensure minority groups can access justice. Adopt effective measures to...
Government should: Continue efforts to tackle domestic violence throughout the UK. Continue its positive efforts to reduce domestic violence throughout...
Government should: Do more to end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...
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: 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: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...
Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...
Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...
Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...
Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...
Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...
Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...
Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...
Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...
Government should: Tackle the increase in violent hate crimes. Take further steps to halt and reverse the increase in the...
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 racism and hate speech by encouraging dialogue and cooperation between different religions and nationalities....
Government should: Improve policies to tackle hate crime, particularly crimes motivated by race and religion. Share any successful strategies with...
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 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: Do more to end hate speech, and to help migrants integrate into communities. Adopt measures to condemn racist...
Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...
Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...
Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....
Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...
Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...
Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...
Government should: Continue tackling discrimination and violence against women and girls. Continue efforts to combat discrimination on any ground and...
Government should: Tackle violence against women. Take further action to combat sexual exploitation and sexual crimes against children. Effectively fight...
Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
UK Government actions In June 2021, Ofsted published the findings of a UK Government-commissioned review of sexual abuse in schools...
The Welsh Government has taken some positive policy and legislative steps, including a range of actions to address childhood adversity....
UK Government actions In October 2020, the UK Government updated the ‘headteachers’ standards’, which set baseline expectations for professional practice...
There have been a number of positive legislative and policy changes to increase education and awareness of the UN Convention...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published a revised draft of its statutory guidance for schools, ‘Keeping...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make relationships and sexuality education a statutory component of the new curriculum – ensuring...
UK Government actions In March 2021, the census for England and Wales was carried out, on a ‘digital-first’ basis. The...
The Welsh Government publishes and analyses some data by protected characteristic, although significant data gaps remain. Overall data gaps and...
UK Government actions In December 2020, NHS England published revised guidance on visitor restrictions in maternity units during the coronavirus...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make it mandatory for all school children aged 5–16 to learn about sexual and...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on occupational...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on social security (welfare...
The Welsh Government has committed to strengthen the equality and human rights legal framework, including by considering the incorporation of...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on mental health...
While the Welsh Government has updated its guidance on the procedures for school exclusion, there have been no significant legal...
UK Government actions: In April 2022, the Elections Act gained Royal Assent. The stated purpose of the Act is to...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on hate crime and hate...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on youth...
The Welsh Government has taken action to prevent and reduce homelessness, protect tenants’ rights, improve housing conditions and increase the...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on human trafficking and modern...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, Department for Education (DfE) revised guidance on behaviour in schools and on suspensions and...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on international cooperation, including with human rights mechanisms....
Measuring changes in attainment is difficult due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on forms of assessment and...
UK Government actions: The UK Government resumed the use of school exams in summer 2022, with exam boards instructed to...
The Welsh Government has developed policy measures and provided investment to improve mental health outcomes. However, there are shortfalls in...
UK Government actions: In June 2022, the UK Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. This aims...
The Welsh Government has taken steps to promote equality in health outcomes, and reports of good general health and healthcare...
UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on human rights abuses...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on crminal justice institutions. ...
Government should: Take further action to tackle domestic violence. Take steps to protect children from the negative impacts of domestic...
Government should: Ban the physical punishment of children to protect them from violence. Ban corporal punishment of children to ensure...
Government should: Share the recommendations widely among disabled people, their families and organisations, including in sign language and accessible formats,...
Government should: Involve, and provide funding for, disabled people's organisations in preparing the next periodic report. The Committee strongly encourages...
Government should: Implement the present recommendations and distribute them to members of Government and Parliament, relevant ministries, devolved administrations, overseas...
Government should: Develop and put into practice joined-up strategies to combat child exploitation and abuse. Develop and implement comprehensive multisectoral...
Government should: Ban all physical punishment of children, in line with the CRC. Take further actions in protecting the rights...
Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, and...
Government should: Consider changing laws on the physical punishment of children. Reconsider its position on the legality of corporal punishment...
The introduction of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 (the VAWDASV Act) and the...
Government should: Ban physical punishment in all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...
Government should: Ensure physical punishment is banned in all educational and other institutions, and in the care system. Ensure that...
Government should: Ban physical punishment in the family in all devolved administrations and overseas territories. Remove all legal defences such...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Make children’s rights the focus of climate change strategies and highlight the risks they face in the National...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its new ‘Tackling violence against women and girls strategy’ for...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published the National Disability Strategy, which included plans to reduce the...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...
There have been some welcome reforms to the policy and legal framework for social care in Wales in recent years,...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced new funding arrangements for health and social care, including: a...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The Welsh Government has...
Employment is mainly a reserved issue, which limits the action that the Welsh Government can take. The employment rate in...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government responded to the Women and Equalities Select Committee consultation on sexual...
Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the UK, with no significant improvements in people’s outcomes over recent years....
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its health and disability green paper to explore how the...
The proportion of disabled pupils attending special schools has been steadily increasing for several years. In response, the Welsh Government...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its National Disability Strategy, which made commitments to improve the...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on access to justice, including fair...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: Cut fees to make higher education more accessible, in accordance with capacity. Gradually introduce free higher education. The...
Government should: Bring into force the outstanding provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to tackle socio-economic inequality and end intersectional...
Government should: (a) Increase the number of women in decision-making roles, in public and private sectors. (b) End the gender...
Government should: Review its employment policies to address the root causes of unemployment. Develop an action plan focusing specifically on...
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: 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: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...
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: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR to allow people who feel their rights have been breached to...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
Government should: Take action to prevent suicides, including suicides and self-harm in custody, by: (a) tackling the root causes of...
Government should: (a) Change laws in Northern Ireland to ensure women there have the same protections as those elsewhere in...
Government should: Make CEDAW part of UK and devolved law without delay to ensure all women in the UK are...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 24 July 2020. The Committee requests that the State...
Government should: Within one year, give an update on plans to implement the UN's recommendations on accountability for conflict-related violations...
Government should: Distribute widely the ICCPR, the UK state report and the UN's recommendations. he State party should disseminate widely...
Government should: Take action to end physical punishment in all settings, including in the home, across the UK and all...
Government should: Take action to tackle violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, by: (a) prioritising introducing domestic...
Government should: Consider ratifying outstanding human rights treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Increase efforts towards equal representation for women in the civil service and the judiciary. Implement the recommendations of...
Government should: Do more to prevent and put an end to racism and xenophobia, including in the media and on...
Government should: (a) Consult stakeholders on how to make civil and political rights a reality for everyone in the UK....
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 30 June 2021. Update its common core document. The...
Government should: Share these recommendations widely. Consult with civil society organisations in the follow-up and before submitting the UK's next...
Government should: Develop and apply indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress on economic, social and cultural rights. Consider the UN...
Government should align its international development cooperation with human rights by: (a) assessing the potential human rights impacts of international...
Government should: Make ICESCR part of UK law. Ensure that where rights are violated, people can take legal action see...
Government should: (a) Assess the impact of leaving the EU on women's rights, including those in Northern Ireland, and take...
Government should: Put an end to all forms of substituted decision-making, by changing or introducing laws and policies on mental...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Raise legal standards for making digital information services accessible for all....
Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...
Government should: work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure disabled people (particularly women, children, intersex people and older people)...
Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...
Government should: (a) Remove laws allowing people to be detained and treated without their consent on the basis of their...
Government should: (a) Produce a thorough plan for reducing the risk of disasters. Develop strategies to ensure disabled people can...
Government should: Consult disabled people's organisations to: (a) Ensure all disabled children get an inclusive education in their own communities....
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Take further action to raise awareness to tackle negative stereotypes and prejudices against disabled people (especially those with...
Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: Embed the rights of disabled women and girls into disability and gender equality policies. Fully consult on this...
Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...
Government should: (a) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...
Government should: Ensure its international development cooperation is aimed at strengthening the right to free compulsory primary education for all....
Government should: (a) Align UK laws with the CRC so it can be enforced in UK courts and people can...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...
Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...
Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...
Government should: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...
Government should: Submit the UK's next State Report to the UN by 8 July 2023. The Committee requests the State...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Support the independent monitoring of the implementation of the CRPD across the UK, including by funding disabled people's...
Government should: Establish and fund a structure for focal points to coordinate the implementation of CRPD across the UK. The...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Promptly update the UK Department for International Development’s Disability Framework and...
Government should: Increase the availability of high-quality data disaggregated by: income, sex, age, gender, race, ethnic origin, migrant, asylum-seeking and...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should: Take further action, in consultation with disabled people's organisations, to guarantee accessibility regardless of impairment, remove restrictions of...
Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the capacity of the Government Equalities Office so that it can provide national leadership on women's...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
Government should: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...
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: 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: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...
Government should ensure poverty is never the sole reason for removing a child from parental care, consider UN advice on...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
Government should: (a) Tackle bullying and violence in schools, through teaching human rights, building respect for diversity and improving conflict-resolution...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
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 children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
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: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 6 April 2020. The Committee recommends that the State...
Government should: Widely distribute the State Reports and the present recommendations. The Committee recommends that the State party’s reports be...
Government should: In the UK's next State Report, provide detailed information on steps taken to implement in particular the recommendations...
Government should: Include in the UK's next State Report specific measures taken nationally to implement the Durban Declaration and Programme...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: Fully consult with civil society organisations when preparing the UK's next State Report, and in the follow-up to...
Government should: 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: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
Government should: Align the UK's juvenile justice systems in line with UN advice and: (a) Increase the age of criminal...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: Abolish any legal obligation to attend collective worship in state-funded schools. Guarantee children's right to freely decide whether...
Government should: Engage with the media to eliminate images that stereotype or objectify women, take steps to end negative gender...
Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...
Government should: make CERD part of UK and devolved law, and: (a) Ensure caste-based discrimination is banned by immediately bringing...
Government should: Ensure that the CAT is made part of UK law. Tell the UN about any cases in which...
Government should: Share the recommendations of the Committee widely across all levels of government and public bodies, as well as...
Government should: (a) Provide enough resources to effectively implement the Female Offender Strategy for England and Wales and ensure that...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on the rights of rural women: (a) Take action to...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
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) Investigate all reported racist hate crimes, prosecute perpetrators and provide remedies for victims. (b) Collect disaggregated data...
Government should: (a) Do more to encourage girls to study non-traditional subjects and courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics;...
Government should: Take specific steps to increase the numbers of women in general, and ethnic minority women and disabled women...
Government should: (a) Ensure that vulnerable women can access employment opportunities, housing and social security so they don't need to...
Government should: (a) Adopt in law the internationally agreed definition of human trafficking, as set out in the Palermo Protocol;...
Government should: Fully implement its laws on female genital mutilation (FGM) and take further measures to prosecute people who carry...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on gender-based violence: (a) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (b) Take...
Government should: Ensure governments across the UK and all overseas territories routinely collect and publish data disaggregated by ethnicity in...
Government should: Ensure members of ethnic minorities can access fair and effective legal aid across the UK and in all...
Government should: Consult children on the voting age. If lowered, strengthen human rights education and early awareness of rights and...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: Urgently tackle the ‘intolerance of childhood’ and negative public attitudes towards children, especially teenagers, in society and the...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: (a) Take further action to end all racist bullying and harassment in schools. Make schools collect data on...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan to combat discrimination against people of African descent, in partnership with communities concerned....
Government should: Collect disaggregated employment and activity data on people from ethnic minority groups. Take further steps to tackle unemployment,...
Government should: Take steps to ensure people belonging to ethnic minorities have full access to quality health care. Take steps...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: Investigate the disproportionate number of black people and people of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system across...
Government should: Ensure the governments of Northern Ireland and Wales regularly review the impact of stop and search powers on...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
There have been changes to the policy and legal framework to increase political participation and improve the diversity of political...