Human Rights – UK
Human Rights in the UK
| Human Rights Instrument : (Date into force) |
Ratification Status | Declaration |
| International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination :1753 | Signature: 1966, Ratification/Accession: 1969 | ✓ |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights :1753 | Signature: 1968, Ratification/Accession: 1976 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights :1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: NA | |
| Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty :1753 | Signature: 1999, Ratification/Accession: 1999 | |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights :1753 | Signature: 1968, Ratification/Accession: 1976 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights :1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: NA | |
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women:1753 | Signature: 1981, Ratification/Accession: 1986 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women:1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 2004 | |
| Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment:1753 | Signature: 1985, Ratification/Accession: 1988 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment:1753 | Signature: 2003, Ratification/Accession: 2003 | |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child:1753 | Signature: 1990, Ratification/Accession: 1991 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict:1753 | Signature: 2000, Ratification/Accession: 2003 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography:1753 | Signature: 2000, Ratification/Accession: 2009 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure :1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: NA | |
| International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families :1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: NA | |
| International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance :1753 | Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: NA | |
| Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:1753 | Signature: 2007, Ratification/Accession: 2009 | ✓ |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:1753 | Signature: 2009, Ratification/Accession: 2009 |
UK – Human Rights Links
UK – Human Rights Links
- 1965: United Nations – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- 2019/07: UK Event – United Nations – Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
- 2021: Runnymede Led – Civil Society Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2021)
- 2022: UK Event – United Nations – Fourth Universal Periodic Review: National State Report
- 2024/09: Concluding observations on the combined twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 2025: UK Government – Draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill (UK)
- A history of human rights in Britain | EHRC
- Equality and human rights resources for advisers | EHRC
