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CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 9

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.188

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.150

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.151

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.152

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.153

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.158

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.159

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.160

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.162

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.163

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.165

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.166

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.185

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.186

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.187

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.189

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.147

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.201

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.207

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.206

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.205

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.204

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.203

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.202

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.198

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.190

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.197

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.195

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.194

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.193

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.192

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.191

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.148

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.146

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.209

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.85

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.70

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.71

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.72

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.73

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.74

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.75

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.76

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.77

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.78

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.79

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.80

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.81

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.82

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.84

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.88

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.145

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.135

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.144

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.143

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.141

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.140

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.138

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.137

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.130

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.92

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.116

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.115

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.113

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.111

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.101

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.93

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.208

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.210

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.68

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 20

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 44.83

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 11

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 15

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 17

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 19

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 21

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 33

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 43

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2024, paragraph 45

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 8

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 10

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 12

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 14

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 18

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 24

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.288

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 42

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 54

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 52

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 50

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 48

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 46

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 44

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 40

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 26

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 38

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 36

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 34

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 32

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 30

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 28

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.301

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.283

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.212

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.262

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.213

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.235

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.248

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.249

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.250

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.251

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.253

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.254

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.255

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.256

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.257

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.259

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.260

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.261

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.263

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.282

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.273

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.281

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.280

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.279

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.276

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.275

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.274

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.272

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.264

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.271

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.270

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.269

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.268

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.267

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.266

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.69

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.67

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 11

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.95

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 49

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.81

Government should: Do more to end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.82

Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.83

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.84

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.85

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.87

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.88

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.89

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.90

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.91

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.92

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.93

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.94

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.96

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 47

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.105

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.111

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.110

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.109

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.108

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.107

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.106

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.104

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.97

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.103

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.102

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.101

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.100

Government should: Put into practice the 'Hate Crime Action Plan' to reduce racially and religiously motivated crimes. Ensure efficient implementation...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.99

Government should: Do more to end hate speech, and to help migrants integrate into communities. Adopt measures to condemn racist...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.98

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 48

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 57

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.113

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 25

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 15

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 17

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 27

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 59

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 13

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 17

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 19

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 23

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 41

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 42

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 10

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 11

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 12

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 23

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

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 16

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 43

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 27

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 51

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 37

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 35

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 33

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 31

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 29

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 25

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

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 56

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 23

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 21

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 19

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 14

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 10

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

UN recommendation

CERD concluding observations 2016, paragraph 8

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.112

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.114

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.66

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.39

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 17

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 25

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 26

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 28

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 29

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 33

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 38

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 43

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 47

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.9

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.10

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.11

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.14

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.28

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.41

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

UN recommendation

Political and civic participation, including political representation – Government action

UK Government actions: In April 2022, the Elections Act gained Royal Assent. The stated purpose of the Act is to...

Government action

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.59

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.65

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.64

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.63

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.62

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.61

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.60

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.58

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.51

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.57

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.56

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.55

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.54

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.53

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.52

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 9

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

UN recommendation

Hate crime and hate speech – Government action

UK Government actions: In March 2022, the UK Government published the Online Safety Bill to establish a regulatory regime for...

Government action

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.115

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.123

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.174

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.216

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.161

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.131

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.128

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.124

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.122

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.178

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.121

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.120

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.119

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.118

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.117

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.116

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.177

Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...

UN recommendation

Immigration – Government action

UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government introduced a Nationality and Borders Bill with the stated aims of...

Government action

International cooperation, including with human rights mechanisms – Government action

UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...

Government action

Harassment and bullying in schools – UK Government assessment

The UK Government’s new relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education guidance is welcome, as is action taken in...

Progress assessment

Equality and human rights legal framework – Government action

UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...

Government action

Occupational segregation – UK Government assessment

The UK Government has introduced some measures to increase the employment of certain protected characteristic groups, including in specific sectors,...

Progress assessment

Occupational segregation – Government action

UK Government actions In March 2021, as part of its Build Back Better plan for growth and 2021 Budget, the...

Government action

Institutional, policy and economic frameworks – Government action

UK Government actions In its March 2021 budget, the UK Government announced measures to address regional inequalities, including the Levelling...

Government action

Institutional, policy and economic frameworks – UK Government assessment

The UK Government has taken some action aimed at strengthening institutional, policy and economic frameworks related to human rights and...

Progress assessment

Harassment and bullying in schools – Welsh Government assessment

The Welsh Government has legislated to make relationships and sexuality education a statutory component of the new curriculum – ensuring...

Progress assessment

Harassment and bullying in schools – Government action

UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published a revised draft of its statutory guidance for schools, ‘Keeping...

Government action

Immigration – UK Government assessment

The implementation of ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies marked a reduction in human rights protections and court cases have found failures...

Progress assessment

Human rights education, trainings and awareness raising – Welsh Government assessment

There have been a number of positive legislative and policy changes to increase education and awareness of the UN Convention...

Progress assessment

Human rights education, trainings and awareness raising – UK Government assessment

While the introduction of compulsory relationships and sex education (RSE) may create further opportunities for schools to teach children about...

Progress assessment

Human rights education, trainings and awareness raising – Government action

UK Government actions In October 2020, the UK Government updated the ‘headteachers’ standards’, which set baseline expectations for professional practice...

Government action

Independent living – Welsh Government assessment

Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...

Progress assessment

Independent living – UK Government assessment

There are persistent barriers affecting disabled people’s right to live independently as part of the community. The UK Government has...

Progress assessment

Independent living – Government action

UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...

Government action

CERD concluding observations 2024, paragraph 58

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

UN recommendation