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The UK takes part in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This is a peer review process conducted by the UN...
Government should: Continue negotiating transitional justice issues in Northern Ireland, and put into practice transitional justice elements of the Stormont...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and protecting child victims. Continue strengthening the positive measures taken to combat the crime...
Government should: Continue combating human trafficking and all forms of slavery. Continue efforts to fight human trafficking and all forms...
Government should: Strengthen the protection of citizens, and their right to privacy, in the Investigatory Powers Bill (2016). Strengthen the...
Government should: Align all surveillance laws with international human rights standards. Ensure all communications surveillance is necessary and proportionate. Bring...
Government should: Ensure surveillance laws do not breach the rights to privacy, intimacy and freedom of expression. Ensure that the...
Government should: Consider changing the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to protect the right to privacy. Ban mass surveillance and stop...
Government should: To guarantee justice for all, ensure appropriate legal aid is available, particularly for the most marginalised groups in...
Government should: Protect the family as a core unit of society. Provide protection to the family as a natural and...
Government should: Consider aligning its corporate criminal liability law with international human rights law. Ensure UK companies operating abroad are...
Government should: Take further action to return illicit funds and proceeds of corruption to their countries of origin. Cooperate with...
Government should: Provide coroners with all necessary resources to conduct prompt and impartial investigations into deaths linked to the Northern...
Government should: Do more to cut the prison population, while improving prisoner safety. Take concrete measures to reduce the current...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking (specifically of women and girls), and to support and rehabilitate victims. Strengthen...
Government should: Develop a plan to improve deteriorating conditions in UK prisons. Tackle rising assaults and killings among prisoners. Initiate...
Government should: Review prison conditions to make them safer places. Consider developing an action plan to address increases in self-harm,...
Government should: Remove the ban on prisoner voting, in line with the rulings of international courts. Revoke the blanket ban...
Government should: Continue improving the treatment of prisoners. Continue its efforts to improve treatment of inmates...
Government should: Do more to reduce violence and sexual exploitation against children. Take more measures to fight against sexual exploitation...
Government should: Put an end to life sentences for minors, in line with the CRC. Abolish the life sentence for...
Government should: Consider ending automatic life sentences for offenders aged under 18. Consider abolishing the mandatory imposition of life imprisonment...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. End automatic life sentences for offenders aged...
Government should: Consider changing the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Consider revising the minimum age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. In line with the recommendations of...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal...
Government should: Monitor the implementation of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, including its affect on combating trafficking in women and...
Government should: Strengthen measures to combat human trafficking, and ensure protection and support for victims. Strengthen the national framework to...
Government should: Protect indigenous people's right to self-determination in their home territories, in line with the UN Charter. Enable indigenous...
Government should: Review counter-terrorism measures which target people or groups based on race, ethnic background or religion, including Muslims or...
Government should: Do more to support victims of discrimination and hatred, especially religious hatred, and to raise awareness of this...
Government should: Strengthen laws to tackle racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes. Address racial discrimination, xenophobia and hate crimes by...
Government should: Review the impact of the 2016 'Hate Crime Action Plan'. Review the approaches of criminal justice agencies to...
Government should: Take further action to end prejudices and punish crimes motivated by xenophobia. Continue strengthening measures to combat prejudices...
Government should: Guarantee the rights of refugees and migrants. Take further action to combat hate crime. Effectively guarantee the rights...
Government should: Take action to combat racism and hate crimes. Ensure victims can access redress and compensation. Adopt measures aimed...
Government should: Take further action to combat increasing hate speech, islamophobia and hate crimes on the basis of race. Address...
Government should: End discrimination against same-sex couples in Northern Ireland by aligning the law with the rest of the UK....
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: Make human rights the focus of the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan. Adopt a rights-based approach to its forthcoming...
Government should: Introduce laws to hold UK companies to account for human rights violations and environmental damages across the globe....
Government should: Evaluate its anti-terrorism strategy, taking into account international human rights obligations, and assess its impacts on human rights....
Government should: Adopt a comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking in women and girls. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to identify...
Government should: Ensure that when force is used in the fight against terrorism it respects the UN Charter and international...
Government should: Ensure the planned counter-extremism bill aligns with international law and does not single out certain organisations based on...
Government should: To protect the right to life, carefully assess selling arms to countries where they are likely to be...
Government should: Consider including in the UK's next State Report what steps have been taken to identify risks of genocide,...
Government should: Train public officials (particularly the police and the military) in human rights, including on the excessive use of...
Government should: Speep up the investigation into allegations of British military personnel involvement in the ill-treatment of civilians and detainees...
Government should: Update the 1988 Criminal Justice Act and ban all forms of torture, including removing so-called 'escape clauses'. Enact...
Government should: Comply with international standards regarding detainees’ rights and the conditions of detention. Cydymffurfio gyda safonau rhyngwladol parthed hawliau...
Government should: Introduce policies to prevent trafficking in women and girls. Guarantee a fair trial to victims of trafficking. Adopt...
Government should: Put the victims at the heart of its strategy to combat human trafficking (especially of women and girls)....
Government should: Fully investigate cases of human trafficking and punish the perpetrators. Investigate thoroughly incidents of trafficking in human beings...
Government should: Strengthen the National Referral Mechanism to identify and support human trafficking victims. Reinforce the National Referral Mechanism to...
Government should: Do more to support disabled people in finding work. Implement measures in support of enhanced participation of people...
Government should: Respect the principles of the UN Charter. Respect the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United...
Government should: Take further action to end religious hate crime. Ensure minority groups can access justice. Adopt effective measures to...
Government should: Strengthen laws in relation to forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Strengthen its legislative framework by including penal...
Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Urgently address gender, racial and ethnic discrimination. Make the CERD part of UK law. Pay priority attention to...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against women in the labour market. Take necessary measures to eliminate discriminatory...
Government should: Do more to tackle violence against women and girls. Exert more efforts to combat or to counter violence...
Government should: Adopt laws, especially in Northern Ireland, to tackle domestic violence. Ensure all cases of domestic violence are fully...
Government should: Take a joined-up approach to preventing violence against women and girls, including harmful practices. Ensure a holistic approach...
Government should: Combat violence against women and girls, in particular domestic violence. Combat violence against women and girls, in particular...
Government should: Continue tackling discrimination and violence against women and girls. Continue efforts to combat discrimination on any ground and...
Government should: Continue efforts to tackle domestic violence throughout the UK. Continue its positive efforts to reduce domestic violence throughout...
Government should: Tackle violence against women. Take further action to combat sexual exploitation and sexual crimes against children. Effectively fight...
Government should: Take further action to tackle domestic violence. Take steps to protect children from the negative impacts of domestic...
Government should: Make children’s rights the focus of climate change strategies and highlight the risks they face in the National...
Government should: Follow-up with employers on their reports on gender pay gaps. With regard to the reporting mechanism on the...
Government should: Review British immigration laws and ensure they are in line with the CRC. Reviewing the laws on immigration...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should: Ban physical punishment in the family in all devolved administrations and overseas territories. Remove all legal defences such...
Government should: Ensure physical punishment is banned in all educational and other institutions, and in the care system. Ensure that...
Government should: Ban physical punishment in all settings, including the family. Prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the family...
Government should: Consider changing laws on the physical punishment of children. Reconsider its position on the legality of corporal punishment...
Government should: Ban the physical punishment of children to protect them from violence. Ban corporal punishment of children to ensure...
Government should: Consider banning the physical punishment of children. Ensure it is banned in all educational and other institutions, and...
Government should: Ban all physical punishment of children, in line with the CRC. Take further actions in protecting the rights...
Government should: Develop and put into practice joined-up strategies to combat child exploitation and abuse. Develop and implement comprehensive multisectoral...
Government should: Tackle discrimination against women, particularly in the labour market, and the gender pay gap. Address the problem of...
Government should: Do more to promote racial equality and social inclusion in Northern Ireland's education system. Step up efforts to...
Government should: Stop evicting indigenous people from the territories they occupy. Stop the forced evictions of indigenous peoples in the...
Government should: Put into practice recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Committee regarding...
Government should: Review the Immigration Act (2016) and put it in line with the CRC. Review the 2016 Immigration Act...
Government should: Develop policies to aid social integration, especially for migrants and refugees. Develop social integration policies, especially for migrants...
Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Consider revising...
Government should: Continue promoting the rights of migrants in the UK. Continue and strengthen the promotion of the rights of...
Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure vulnerable...
Government should: Ban the indefinite detention of migrants and find alternatives to detention. ncorporate a prohibition to indefinite detention of...
Government should: Like other European countries, limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Ensure children...
Government should: Revise laws and policies to protect the human rights of female domestic migrant workers, particularly when their visas...
Government should: Align the UK Immigration Act 2016 with international human rights law, including the CRC. Improve on the United...
Government should: Change the law to help reunite child asylum seekers and refugees in the UK with their families. Reform...
Government should: Take action to ensure unaccompanied children who are refugees or resettled in the UK can be reunited with...
Government should: Protect people without citizenship of another country and speed up the process of granting British nationality in an...
Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
Government should: Fully respect the sovereignty of Mauritius and recognise the right of resettlement of the Chagossians in line with...
Government should: Apologise to the peoples and countries it colonised or attacked, and offer financial compensation. Apologize to the peoples...
Government should: Ensure the welfare of all members of society, including migrants. Ensure the welfare of all segments of society...
Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...
Government should: Ensure equality laws benefit the most disadvantaged in society. Simplify, harmonize and reinforce the current legal norms on...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
Government should: Consult on the possibility of a universal basic income, replacing the current social protection system. As a follow-up...
Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...
Government should: Provide reproductive health care for all women and girls, in line with CEDAW. Government should: Provide reproductive health...
Government should: Do more to end hate crime and xenophobia. Redoubling efforts and measures to combat hate crimes and xenophobia...
Government should: Tackle the increase in violent hate crimes. Take further steps to halt and reverse the increase in the...
Government should: Consider allowing people who feel their rights have been breached to take complaints to the UN by ratifying...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ('Lanzarote...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Ratify the International Convention for the...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Sign and accede to the International...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Accede to the International Convention for...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to show commitment to tackling this...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratification of the International...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue considering adhering to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Continue its work on accession...
Government should: Promptly ratify ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Ratify promptly the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Consider ratifying the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence ('Istanbul Convention')....
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Make the necessary changes to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women...
Government should: Consider accepting the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. Ratify the...
Government should: Put into practise the 1954 Convention on Statelessness, ensuring people in Britain without citizenship from another country can...
Government should: Cooperate with international human rights mechanisms. Pursue cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms (Côte...
Government should: Involve civil society in decision-making processes, particularly regarding putting the present recommendations into practice. Listen to British human...
The Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Align all laws with international human rights standards. Align its norms to the human rights based approach in...
Government should: Promptly ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Harmonise human rights laws across the UK's territories. Accede...
Government should: Ratify any outstanding human rights treaties and optional protocols. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the...
Government should: Urgently complete the review of reservations made to human rights treaties. Step up the process of reviewing the...
Government should: Remove the reservation under CERD article 4 (on propaganda and incitement to racial hatred and discrimination). Lift the...
Government should: Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers. Ratify the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocols to ICESCR and the CRC on complaints procedures; and the International Convention for the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Consider ratifying the International...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the First Optional Protocol to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying further Optional Protocols on complaints procedures. Take necessary steps to allow individual complaints mechanisms under United...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on a complaints procedure. Consider ratification of the First Optional...
Government should: Ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families....
Government should: Withdraw reservations made under the ICESCR. Withdraw reservations from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International...
Government should: Approve the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the third optional protocol to the...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider the ratification of the Optional...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. In order to further strengthen the...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to...
Government should: Remove the interpretive declaration under article 1 of the Optional Protocol to the CRC relating to children's involvement...
Government should: Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their...
Government should: Consider ratifying any outstanding human rights treaties. Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments it had not yet...
Government should: Make CERD part of UK law. Guarantee the applicability of the principles and doctrines of the International Convention...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Further incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
Government should: Assess the impact of the 'Hate Crime Action Plan'. Prepare a report on the impact of the “Hate...
Government should: Put into practice the 'Hate Crime Action Plan' to reduce racially and religiously motivated crimes. Ensure efficient implementation...
Government should: Consult with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities and tackle the problems they face, including discrimination and stigmatisation. Elaborate...
Government should: Do more to prevent discrimination against minorities, specifically the Roma community. Ensure that the Government of the United...
Government should: Develop a UK-wide strategy for better integrating Gypsies, Travellers and Roma into society. That the State and devolved...
Government should: Enforce and strengthen laws to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, nomads and Roma. Strengthen and activate existing...
Government should: Develop an action plan to put into practice the work of the Decade of People of African Descent,...
Government should: Develop a strategy to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities. Develop a comprehensive strategy to address inequalities experienced...
Government should: Do more to tackle inequalities faced by ethnic minorities and combat discrimination. ake effective measures to address inequalities...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination, and promote equal political, social and economic rights of ethnic minority women....
Government should: Take further action to prevent intolerance based on nationality and race. Take effective measures to prevent manifestations of...
Government should: Raise awareness to end violence and discrimination against ethnic minorities and foreigners. Take the necessary measures to deepen...
Government should: Do more to end hate speech, and to help migrants integrate into communities. Adopt measures to condemn racist...
Government should: Continue promoting cultural understanding to end hate crime against social minorities. Continue to implement measures such as promoting...
Government should: Take further action to end discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities. Review and strengthen current policies and initiatives...
Government should: Do more to end racial hatred, which leads to hate crimes. Take additional serious measures to eliminate race...
Government should: Do more to tackle the sharp increase in hate-related crimes, especially those involving young people. Take appropriate measures...
Government should: Take further action to end hate crimes. Better identify potential targets and vulnerable communities, improve surveillance and do...
Government should: Collect data to better understand the scale and severity of hate crimes, and to assess the impact of...
Government should: Do more to end incitement to hatred by some British tabloid newspapers, in line with authorities' obligations under...
Government should: Monitor hate crime and discrimination cases, following the adoption of the Hate Crime Action Plan (2016). Continue to...
Government should: Do more to end incitement to hatred within British mass media, in line with international standards. Take measures...
Government should: Improve policies to tackle hate crime, particularly crimes motivated by race and religion. Share any successful strategies with...
Government should: Work with parliamentarians, human rights institutions and civil society organisations to better protect ethnic and religious minorities, refugees...
Government should: Do more to end racism and hate speech by encouraging dialogue and cooperation between different religions and nationalities....
Government should: Take further action to end racism and xenophobia. Make the CERD part of UK law. Take further measures...
Government should Stop putting pressure on mass media, for example by closing their bank accounts. Stop the pressure on mass...
Government should: Coordinate and monitor how the CRC is put into practice at the local and national level. Establish effective...
Government should: Ensure any new Bill of Rights does not remove or weaken the current human rights protections. Ensure that...
Government should: Make the CRC part of UK law. Integrate fully the principles and provisions of the Convention on the...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Incorporate the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...
Government should: Align all laws and policies with international human rights law and standards, including in the fight against terrorism....
Government should: Engage in public debates on how international human rights standards are put into practice for all people across...
Government should: Make the CERD part of UK law. Ensure that the principles and provisions of the International Convention on...
Government should: Urgently make the CRC part of UK and devolved law. Speed up the adjustment of national legislation to...
Government should: Involve all stakeholders in the drafting and adoption of the British Bill of Rights, especially members of poor,...
Government should: Guarantee any proposed British Bill of Rights would be additional to the European Convention on Human Rights in...
Government should: Ensure any legal changes do not reduce the human rights protections provided by the Human Rights Act. Ensure...
Government should: Ensure any new human rights laws have the same legal effects and scope as the Human Rights Act....
Government should: Ensure any legal changes, such as a new Bill of Rights, maintain the same level of protections as...
Government should: Ensure a new British Bill of Rights does not reduce the current human rights protections. Take all necessary...
Government should: Tackle religious hatred, discrimination, hostility and violence in both political discourse and in the media. Tackle advocacy of...
Government should: Ensure any human rights reforms do not reduce the current human rights protections, and do not affect people's...
Government should: Continue its commitment to international human rights law. Ensure people are fully consulted on any new Bill of...
Government should: Ensure any proposal for a new British Bill of Rights maintains and improves current human rights protections. Make...
Government should: Fully consult the public before replacing the Human Rights Act (1998). In leaving the European Union, ensure any...
Government should: Ensure any changes to human rights laws do not weaken human rights protections. Ensure that changes in the...
Government should: In leaving the European Union, ensure human rights standards are maintained in the UK, and take into consideration...
Government should: Adopt a national action plan on human rights. Adopt a national action plan on human rights...
Government should: Urgently take action to monitor any negative impacts on human rights of British companies operating abroad, particularly in...
Government should: Do more to end all discrimination and inequality. Further reinforce measures to combat all forms of discrimination and...
Government should: Do more to end racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. End discrimination against migrants. Avoid detaining asylum seekers and stateless...
Government should: Enforce laws on equality and non-discrimination and end prejudice, xenophobia and violence against women and girls. Ensure equality...
Government should: Do more to put an end to negative stereotypes in the media, especially against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Government should: Fully investigate all cases of sexual violence against children by high-level officials, and prosecute the perpetrators. Complete the...
