Section two Focus on detention issues Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities examined the UK’s compliance with its obligations arising from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in August 2017. Ahead of this, both the CCE and the SHRC submitted shadow reports for the Committee’s consideration. The Committee made a number of recommendations to the UK government that are relevant to persons deprived of their liberty including: the elimination of all forms of substituted decision-making; repeal of legislation and practices authorising involuntary treatment and detention of persons with disabilities on the basis of actual or perceived impairment; the investigation and elimination of all forms of abuse of persons with disabilities in institutional facilities; and eradicating the use of restraint for reasons related to disability within all settings.33 prisons; consider adopting action plans to reduce prison crowding and to address self-harm in prisons; introduce a time limit on immigration detention. Universal Periodic Review The third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UK took place in May 2017. A total of 227 recommendations were made, of which the UK government reported that it has implemented or will implement 96. The UPR process examined the government’s implementation of all its human rights obligations, including in relation to deprivation of liberty and the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment. Recommendations relevant to the mandate of the NPM included to: allow for individual complaints under CAT; enact a complete prohibition on torture; take measures to improve prisoner safety and conditions in 33 Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UN Doc CRPD/C/GBR/CO/1, 3 October 2017, available at https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/countries. aspx?CountryCode=GBR&Lang=EN, accessed 19 July 2018. 29