China: Uighur Internment Camps 23 September 2020 The Lord Bishop of St Albans To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the condition of Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang in China. The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) (Con) My Lords, there are reports of torture…
Baroness Cox To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Nigeria: Unfolding Genocide?, published on 15 June. The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) (Con) My Lords, the Government welcome the report…
Baroness Cox, alongside 19 co-signatories, has written to Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC to highlight urgent concerns about escalating violence in Nigeria, where attacks led by Boko Haram, Fulani herders and other Islamist militia continue in northern and central-belt states, with reports of increasing violence in the southeast. The letter reads We write…
Rehman Chishti MP announced today “I’ve written to the PM resigning as PM’s Special Envoy on FoRB. I can’t support Internal Market Bill in its current form, which unilaterally break UK’s legal commitments. As an MP for 10 yrs & former Barrister, values of respecting rule of law & honouring one’s word are dear to…
Ideologically motivated sexual grooming In an event for the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief organised by The Coalition for Genocide Response (view the event in full) Dr Mariz Tadros, Director of CREID and Professor of Politics and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex,…
The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based is intended to provide a springboard towards an action plan that addresses the growing issue of violence based on religion or belief. The establishment of such a day is not the end goal in itself. It is just the beginning of a larger campaign…
The All Party Parliamentary Group for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched a new report entitled: ‘Suffocation of the Faithful: Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan and the rise of International extremism’ It is the first of its kind to be written by the APPG in response to the worrying increase of persecution against Ahmadi…
The Human Rights and Democracy report provides an overview of activity in 2019 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its diplomatic network to defend human rights and promote democracy around the world. It also sets out the analysis on country situations and thematic issues which directs that work. In the Preface, Foreign Secretary Dominic…
The UK All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief welcomes the UK Government’s introduction of a global human rights sanctions regime. According to the Foreign Secretary, who announced the plans on July 7 2020, this regime “will enable [the UK Government] to impose travel bans and asset freezes against those involved…
An online event was held to mark the first anniversary of the publication of the Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians. The full report The event was hosted by Lord Alton, and there were contributions made by Baroness Nicholson, Jim Shannon MP, Jeremy Hunt MP, Archbishop…