CERD recommendations 2024, paragraph 38
Plain English recommendation
Government, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should:
Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic minorities, especially children. This includes by creating a cross-governmental strategy against poverty that also effectively addresses unemployment, occupational segregation, and discrimination in hiring, pay, promotions, and other employment conditions. Government should also abolish policies that adversely impact ethnic-minority households, such as the two-child limit and benefit cap.
Original UN recommendation
Recalling its previous concluding observations, the Committee recommends that the State party, including the devolved governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, adopt the measures necessary to combat persistent poverty, which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, in particular children, including by adopting a cross-governmental strategy against poverty and by effectively addressing unemployment, occupational segregation and discriminatory practices with regard to recruitment, salaries, promotions and other conditions of employment. It also recommends that the State party abolish policies that adversely impact ethnic minority households, such as the two-child limit and benefit cap.
Date of UN examination
24/09/2024
Original UN document
Download the original CERD concluding observations 2024 on the UN website.
Last updated on 11/04/2025