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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 43.87

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

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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 43.151

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 43.150

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.142

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.129

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.127

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.122

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.91

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.90

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.17

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.154

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.15

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 52

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

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CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 51

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

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CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 50

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

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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: •...

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CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 44

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

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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 41

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 40

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

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CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 39

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

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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 36

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

UN recommendation

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 43.155

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 34

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.232

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

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

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 43.269

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 43.266

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 43.264

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 43.261

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 43.258

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.241

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.238

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

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 43.231

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.156

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.229

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.227

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.223

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

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UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.222

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.215

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

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 43.187

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 43.165

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 43.162

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 43.160

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 43.159

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 43.158

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 43.157

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 35

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

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

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

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

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.170

Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.169

Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.166

Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.125

Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....

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 69

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraphs 65

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 63

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 61

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 59

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

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

CRC concluding observations 2016, paragraph 29

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

UN recommendation

CEDAW concluding observations 2019, paragraph 50

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.172

Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 17

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

UN recommendation

ICCPR concluding observations 2015, paragraph 16

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 62

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 60

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 58

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 56

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

UN recommendation

ICESCR concluding observations 2016, paragraph 25

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 55

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 45

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

UN recommendation

CRPD concluding observations 2017, paragraph 41

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

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 13

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.171

Government should: Provide reproductive health care for all women and girls, in line with CEDAW. Government should: Provide reproductive health...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.173

Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 31

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

UN recommendation

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

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 30

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 23

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 22

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

UN recommendation

CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 21

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

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

Mental health – Government action

UK Government actions: In June 2022, the UK Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. This aims...

Government action

Health outcomes and experience in the healthcare system – Government action

UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...

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

Reproductive and sexual health – Welsh Government assessment

The Welsh Government has legislated to make it mandatory for all school children aged 5–16 to learn about sexual and...

Progress assessment

Reproductive and sexual health – UK Government assessment

Funding cuts to the public health grant have affected sexual and reproductive health budgets, access to services across England varies,...

Progress assessment

Reproductive and sexual health – Government action

UK Government actions In December 2020, NHS England published revised guidance on visitor restrictions in maternity units during the coronavirus...

Government action

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

Mental health detention – Government action

UK Government actions In September 2021, Public Health England published updated guidance on preventing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in...

Government action

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

Violence, abuse and neglect, and child sexual exploitation – Welsh Government assessment

The Welsh Government has taken some positive policy and legislative steps, including a range of actions to address childhood adversity....

Progress assessment

Violence, abuse and neglect, and child sexual exploitation – UK Government assessment

The UK Government has taken some policy and legislative steps to address aspects of violence, abuse and neglect, including its...

Progress assessment

Violence, abuse and neglect, and child sexual exploitation – Government action

UK Government actions In June 2021, Ofsted published the findings of a UK Government-commissioned review of sexual abuse in schools...

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

Access to healthcare – Welsh Government assessment

There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...

Progress assessment

Access to healthcare – UK Government assessment

Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...

Progress assessment

Access to healthcare – Government action

UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...

Government action

Mental health detention – UK Government assessment

The UK Government has committed to introducing a new Mental Health Bill and implementing new laws to prevent the use...

Progress assessment

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.2

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

UN recommendation