Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | We are fully committed to the UPR process and the important role it plays in improving human rights across the world. We will engage civil society organisations in deciding which recommendations to accept, therefore ensuring a strategy for implementation which has buy in and is deliverable against the backdrop of reduced resources in both the statutory and voluntary sectors | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | The UK is committed to updating the Working Group on progress through a midterm report in 2014. As well as updating the Working Group on progress on the recommendation the UK accepted at its 2012 review it will also provide updates on its position against those recommendations the UK didn't accept. This is part of a commitment to NHRIs and NGOs to keep all recommendations under review and recognition that the main objective of the UPR - of continual improvement of human rights | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Follow the Council of the European Union Asylum Qualification Directive in future cases with regard to sexual orientation as a ground for asylum-seeking. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Set up a strategic oversight body, such as a commission on violence against women, to ensure greater coherence and more effective protection for women. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Elaborate a national programme to combat the problem of overcrowding of prisons. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Enshrine in legislation the right of access of detainees to a lawyer immediately after detention and not after 48 hours. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Address the high incarceration rate of children, ensure that the privacy of children is protected. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Harmonize its legislation with its human rights obligations towards individual protesters exercising their freedom of expression and opinion and to curtail excessive pretrial detention. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Protect the children and families of migrants and refugees. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Provide more care and attention to the rights of the elderly. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Protect the children and families of migrants and refugees. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Elaborate specific policies and programmes aimed at ensuring that its applicable human rights obligations are not violated in situations of armed conflict. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Enhance the programmes aimed at addressing socio-economic inequalities, from a human rights perspective in fulfilment of its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Provide further information with regard to efforts to reduce poverty among children in half by 2010. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Introduce strict time limits on pre-charge detention of those suspected of terrorism, and provide information about so-called secret flights. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Integrate fully a gender perspective in the next stages of the UPR review, including the outcome of the review. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Consider going beyond current legislation and to ban corporal punishment, also in the private sector and in its Overseas Territories. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Reflect upon and consider setting a date for signing the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Consider further measures in order to address the problem of violence against children, including corporal punishment. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Consider removal of its reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Continue to review all counter-terrorism legislation and ensure that it complies with the highest human rights standards. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Continue to review all counter-terrorism legislation and ensure that it complies with the highest human rights standards. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Continue to review all counter-terrorism legislation and ensure that it complies with the highest human rights standards. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Recommended that the example of the United Kingdom in issuing, in principle, a specific law dealing with incitement to racial and religious hatred, be emulated as a good practice in countries which have not done so, in implementation of article 20(2) of ICCPR and its stipulated purpose. | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Reconsider its position about the continued legality of corporal punishment against children. | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Accede to the International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Accept the full and unrestricted implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in overseas territories under its control. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Accede to the International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Accede to the International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Withdraw its interpretative statement with respect to article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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