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Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

The UK takes part in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This is a peer review process conducted by the UN...

UN treaty

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.126

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.139

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

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 43.136

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

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 43.134

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.133

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.132

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.131

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

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 43.129

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.128

Government should: Keep tackling human trafficking and protect and help victims of trafficking. Continue efforts aimed at combatting human trafficking...

UN recommendation

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...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.125

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

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 43.124

Government should: Do more to deal with human trafficking and slavery. Intensify efforts to combat human trafficking and all forms...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.123

Government should: Do more to investigate claims of human trafficking, and improve training for law enforcement officers, prison staff and...

UN recommendation

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...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.121

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.120

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.119

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.118

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.117

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

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 43.114

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

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 43.112

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

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 43.140

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 43.142

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.109

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

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 43.172

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.171

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.170

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.169

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.168

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.167

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

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 43.165

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 43.164

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

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 43.162

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 43.161

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

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 43.158

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 43.143

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 43.157

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

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 43.155

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

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 43.153

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 43.152

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

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...

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 43.149

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

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 43.147

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 43.146

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 43.145

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 43.144

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 43.110

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.108

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.174

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

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 43.71

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 43.70

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 43.69

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 43.68

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

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

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 43.65

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 43.59

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 43.57

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 43.73

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 43.56

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

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 43.50

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.49

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.48

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.47

Government should: Improve the status of ratified human rights treaties in domestic law. Enhance the status of the ratified human...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.46

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.45

Government should: Commit to continuing to incorporate ECHR rights and provisions. Commit to continued domestic incorporation of ECHR rights and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.44

Government should: Ensure that any laws that replace the Human Rights Act of 1998 provide at least the same level...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.43

Government should: Fully implement and give effect to the European Convention on Human Rights in UK law. Ensure that the...

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 43.74

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 43.107

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

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 43.106

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.105

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.104

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.103

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.102

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

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 43.100

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.99

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.98

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.97

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.96

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.95

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.94

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

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 43.75

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 43.91

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

UN recommendation

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...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.89

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

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 43.87

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

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 43.84

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 43.82

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.81

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 43.80

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 43.79

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 43.78

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 43.77

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 43.76

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 43.173

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.175

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

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

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 43.274

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 43.273

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 43.272

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 43.271

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 43.264

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 43.263

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 43.262

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 43.261

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 43.259

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 43.276

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 43.258

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 43.257

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 43.256

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 43.255

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 43.254

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 43.253

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 43.252

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

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 43.250

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 43.249

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 43.248

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 43.247

Government should: Introduce an employment policy for disabled people to ensure that they can have decent work and equal pay....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.246

Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Raise the age of criminal responsibility, which stands at ten at the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.245

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

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 43.277

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.243

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.294

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.86

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.265

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.211

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

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

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.3

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.302

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

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 43.300

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.299

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.298

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.297

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.296

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.295

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.293

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.278

Government should: Defend and improve laws protecting the rights of asylum seekers and migrant workers in line with international law,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.292

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.291

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.290

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.289

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

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 43.287

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.286

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.285

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.284

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

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 43.282

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 43.281

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 43.244

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.242

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.176

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

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 43.205

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 43.201

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 43.200

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.199

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

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 43.197

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.196

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

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 43.191

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 43.207

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 43.190

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 43.189

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 43.188

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 43.187

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 43.186

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 43.185

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 43.184

Government should: Deal with all issues related to the Chagos archipelago through inclusive talks with all concerned. Resolve all outstanding...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.183

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.182

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.181

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.180

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.179

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.178

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.177

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

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 43.208

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 43.241

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 43.226

Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.240

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.239

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

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 43.237

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.236

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

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 43.234

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.233

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

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 43.231

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 43.230

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

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 43.228

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

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 43.225

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

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 43.224

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

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...

UN recommendation

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 43.221

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.220

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.219

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.218

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.217

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.216

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

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 43.214

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

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 43.212

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 43.210

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 43.42

Government should: Ensure that changes to the Human Rights Act do not weaken the current level of protection. Ensure that...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.40

Government should: Ensure that any reform to the Human Rights Act 1998 does not weaken protections or limit people’s ability...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.1

Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...

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 134.97

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 134.96

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

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

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 134.93

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 134.92

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 134.91

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 134.90

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 134.89

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 134.88

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 134.87

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 134.86

Government should Stop putting pressure on mass media, for example by closing their bank accounts. Stop the pressure on mass...

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 134.83

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 134.99

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 134.82

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 134.81

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 134.80

Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.79

Government should: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.78

Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.77

Government should: Ensure any changes to human rights laws do not weaken human rights protections. Ensure that changes in the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.76

Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.75

Government should: Ensure any proposal for a new British Bill of Rights maintains and improves current human rights protections. Make...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.74

Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.73

Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.72

Government should: Ensure a new British Bill of Rights does not reduce the current human rights protections. Take all necessary...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.71

Government should: Ensure any new Bill of Rights does not remove or weaken the current human rights protections. Ensure that...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.70

Government should: Ensure any legal changes, such as a new Bill of Rights, maintain the same level of protections as...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.69

Government should: Ensure any new human rights laws have the same legal effects and scope as the Human Rights Act....

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

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 134.67

Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...

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 134.130

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.129

Government should: Evaluate its anti-terrorism strategy, taking into account international human rights obligations, and assess its impacts on human rights....

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 134.127

Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.126

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

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

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 134.123

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 134.122

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 134.121

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 134.116

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 134.101

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 134.115

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 134.114

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 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

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 134.111

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 134.105

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 134.104

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 134.103

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 134.68

Government should: Ensure any legal changes do not reduce the human rights protections provided by the Human Rights Act. Ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.66

Government should: Involve all stakeholders in the drafting and adoption of the British Bill of Rights, especially members of poor,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.132

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.17

Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.30

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.29

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.28

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.27

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.26

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.25

Government should: Consider ratifying any outstanding human rights treaties. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments it had not yet...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.24

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.23

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.22

Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.21

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.20

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.19

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.18

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.16

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.32

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.15

Government should: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.14

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.13

Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.12

Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.11

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.10

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.9

Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.8

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.7

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.6

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.5

Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.4

Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.3

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.2

Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.31

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.33

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Sign and accede to the International...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.65

Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.51

Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.64

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.63

Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.62

Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.61

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.60

Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.59

Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.58

Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.57

Government should: Align all laws with international human rights standards. Align its norms to the human rights based approach in...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.56

Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.55

Government should: Involve civil society in decision-making processes, particularly regarding putting the present recommendations into practice. Listen to British human...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.54

Government should: Cooperate with international human rights mechanisms. Pursue cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms (Côte...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.53

Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.52

Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.50

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.34

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.49

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.48

Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.47

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.45

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.44

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.43

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.42

Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.41

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.40

Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.39

Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.38

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue its work on accession...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.37

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.36

Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratification of the International...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.35

Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...

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 134.133

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

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

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.191

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.5

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Take steps to ratify the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.4

Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Consider...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.1

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.201

Government should: Fully investigate all cases of sexual violence against children by high-level officials, and prosecute the perpetrators. Complete the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.200

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.199

Government should: Ban all physical punishment of children, in line with the CRC. Take further actions in protecting the rights...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.198

Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.197

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.196

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.195

Government should: Ban physical punishment in all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.194

Government should: Ensure physical punishment is banned in all educational and other institutions, and in the care system. Ensure that...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.193

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.192

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.190

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.7

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.189

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.188

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.187

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.186

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.185

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.184

Government should: Continue tackling discrimination and violence against women and girls. Continue efforts to combat discrimination on any ground and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.183

Government should: Combat violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Combat violence against women and girls, in particular...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.182

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.181

Government should: Adopt laws, especially in Northern Ireland, to tackle domestic violence. Ensure all cases of domestic violence are fully...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.180

Government should: Do more to tackle violence against women and girls. Exert more efforts to combat or to counter violence...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.179

Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...

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 134.177

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.176

Government should: Tackle discrimination against women, particularly in the labour market, and the gender pay gap. Address the problem of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.6

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.8

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

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 2022, paragraph 43.25

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.38

Government should: Maintain international obligations and standards in line with the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. Maintain...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.37

Government should: Harmonise the core human rights treaties with domestic law. Harmonize the core human rights treaties into domestic law...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.36

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.35

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.34

Government should: Ensure that any future laws are as effective and broad in scope as the Human Rights Act. Ensure...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.33

Government should: Ensure that all new laws are in line with the UK’s international human rights obligations. Ensure that all...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.32

Government should: Reconsider replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights and commit to giving effect to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.31

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.30

Government should: Stop the plan to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill that gives a lower level...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.29

Government should: Ensure that any changes to human rights laws do not reduce the level of the protection provided by...

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 43.27

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.26

Government should: Reform the Gender Recognition Act so that it is in line with international human rights standards, including by...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.24

Government should: Ensure that any future human rights laws comply with the duty under the Good Friday Agreement to fully...

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 43.23

Government should: Ensure that the British Bill of Rights provides the same level of protection as the Human Rights Act...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.22

Government should: Bring all legislation on communication surveillance in line with international human rights standards; ensure all communications surveillance is...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.21

Government should: Ensure the proposed Bill of Rights does not weaken the Human Rights Act 1998. Take necessary measures to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.20

Government should: Remain committed to fully putting into practice the European Convention on Human Rights. Remain committed to fully implement...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.19

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.18

Government should: Continue efforts to submit overdue State Party Reports to UN treaty bodies. Continue efforts to ensure the submission...

UN recommendation

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 43.16

Government should: Take steps to allow individual complaints under UN human rights treaties such as the Convention against Torture and...

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

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 43.13

Government should: Remove reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Withdraw reservations to...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2022, paragraph 43.12

Government should: Consider withdrawing the declaration about 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 43.10

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.175

Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...

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

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.134

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.150

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.202

Government should: Do more to reduce violence and sexual exploitation against children. Take more measures to fight against sexual exploitation...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.162

Government should: Continue improving the treatment of prisoners. Continue its efforts to improve treatment of inmates...

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 134.160

Government should: Review prison conditions to make them safer places. Consider developing an action plan to address increases in self-harm,...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.159

Government should: Develop a plan to improve deteriorating conditions in UK prisons. Tackle rising assaults and killings among prisoners. Initiate...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.158

Government should: Do more to cut the prison population, while improving prisoner safety. Take concrete measures to reduce the current...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.157

Government should: Continue negotiating transitional justice issues in Northern Ireland, and put into practice transitional justice elements of the Stormont...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.156

Government should: Provide coroners with all necessary resources to conduct prompt and impartial investigations into deaths linked to the Northern...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.155

Government should: Take further action to return illicit funds and proceeds of corruption to their countries of origin. Cooperate with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.153

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.152

Government should: Protect the family as a core unit of society. Provide protection to the family as a natural and...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.154

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.151

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.149

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.204

Government should: Consider ending automatic life sentences for offenders aged under 18. Consider abolishing the mandatory imposition of life imprisonment...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.148

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.147

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.146

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.145

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.144

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.143

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.142

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.141

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.140

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.139

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.138

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.137

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.136

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.135

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.203

Government should: Put an end to life sentences for minors, in line with the CRC. Abolish the life sentence for...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.205

Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. End automatic life sentences for offenders aged...

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

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.222

Government should: Change the law to help reunite child asylum seekers and refugees in the UK with their families. Reform...

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 134.170

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 134.168

Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.167

Government should: Consult on the possibility of a universal basic income, replacing the current social protection system. As a follow-up...

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 134.165

Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.164

Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.163

Government should: Ensure the welfare of all members of society, including migrants. Ensure the welfare of all segments of society...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.227

Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.226

Government should: Fully respect the sovereignty of Mauritius and recognise the right of resettlement of the Chagossians in line with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.225

Government should: Protect people without citizenship of another country and speed up the process of granting British nationality in an...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.224

Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.223

Government should: Take action to ensure unaccompanied children who are refugees or resettled in the UK can be reunited with...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.221

Government should: Align the UK Immigration Act 2016 with international human rights law, including the CRC. Improve on the United...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.206

Government should: Consider changing the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Consider revising the minimum age of criminal responsibility...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.220

Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.219

Government should: Like other European countries, limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure children...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.218

Government should: Ban the indefinite detention of migrants and find alternatives to detention. ncorporate a prohibition to indefinite detention of...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.217

Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure vulnerable...

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 134.215

Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Consider revising...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.214

Government should: Develop policies to aid social integration, especially for migrants and refugees. Develop social integration policies, especially for migrants...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.213

Government should: Review the Immigration Act (2016) and put it in line with the CRC. Review the 2016 Immigration Act...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.212

Government should: Stop evicting indigenous people from the territories they occupy. Stop the forced evictions of indigenous peoples in the...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.211

Government should: Respect the principles of the UN Charter. Respect the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.210

Government should: Protect indigenous people's right to self-determination in their home territories, in line with the UN Charter. Enable indigenous...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.209

Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.208

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

UN recommendation

UPR recommendations 2017, paragraph 134.207

Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. In line with the recommendations of...

UN recommendation

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