On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...
UK Government actions: In March 2022, the UK Government published the Online Safety Bill to establish a regulatory regime for...
Government should: Increase efforts to remove all combustible cladding from buildings where it risks lives. It should also protect the...
Government should: Provide support for disabled people in rural areas. Provide support accessible to people with disabilities at the rural...
Government should: Keep taking action to end discrimination against minorities, especially women in rural areas. Continue to strengthen mechanisms and...
Government should: Make the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment part of law in the whole UK. Incorporate...
Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...
Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...
Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...
Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...
Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...
Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children, including younger children, disabled children and children in care, can have a say...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...
The UK Government has introduced some positive reforms in relation to family life, including action to tackle child marriage and...
UK Government actions In June 2021, the UK Government committed to raise the minimum age for people to marry in...
Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...
There are persistent barriers affecting disabled people’s right to live independently as part of the community. The UK Government has...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...
Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on the rights of rural women: (a) Take action to...
Government should: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
Government should: (a) Ensure there is sufficient housing (especially social housing), particularly for the most disadvantaged groups, including those on...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Take all steps to ensure affordable, adequate housing for ethnic minority households, including social housing. It should also...
