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Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) We need to ensure that it is safe for people to speak up for democracy, workers’ rights and human rights - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) He mentioned the UN Human Rights Council. - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) , and for equal rights for women and girls, disabled people and LGBT+ persons. - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Every day, people across China face violations of their human rights, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) the Commonwealth and its charter, which insists on full respect for the rule of law and human rights. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Now, the language on human rights has been eased, massaged and sanitised. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Our Joint Committee on Human Rights report is insistent that the global crisis of displacement—UNHCR - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Such international treaties protecting the human rights, asylum and refugee claims of people from jurisdictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) It is human nature that people would do that. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) of Rwanda from asylum and human rights protection. - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) I have spoken a lot about the rights of LGBT people and disabled people seeking asylum and how we need - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) There is no threat to their human rights. - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It is an affront to human rights, to the dignity of individuals and human beings, and to the international - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Proposed British Jewish History Month - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) minorities in this country, and continue to educate future generations, through Black History Month, LGBT - Speech Link
2: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) just say some people—from a republican background now have towards the Jewish people and towards the - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) blatant examples of antisemitism and where, just before Christmas, Iran was selected to sit on the Human - Speech Link
4: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) It is a history of human suffering, of human perseverance and of human strength. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 - Wed 10 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) rights claims from people who are in safe countries. - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) years, the reality on the ground for many LGBT people has not. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Human Rights Watch has said that there have been 31,677 cases of rape in a year in India. - Speech Link
4: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) people, but there are clearly real dangers to individual LGBT people in both India and Georgia, as is - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Christmas, Christianity and Communities - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) It means that human rights actually exist. - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) My faith reassures me that we human beings are not the top of the tree. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) faiths and communities can live together in much greater harmony.As a gay man, I know how difficult LGBT - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) rights; regrettably, not a single Government Back Bencher was able to attend. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
LGBT Veterans Independent Review - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) taking to ensure that pensions are fully restored to those who were misinformed that their pension rights - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Gentleman will know that accrued pension rights remain. - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) We must remember that while homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967, the ban on LGBT people in the armed - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) process, and, initially, she found it hard to find employment commensurate with her skills and worth as a human - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) They want to get rid of the European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We have the undermining of human rights. - Speech Link
3: Marco Longhi (Con - Dudley North) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
6: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
7: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
8: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
9: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
10: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
11: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
12: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Streatham) European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
13: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) those human rights would be abused. - Speech Link
14: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) Human rights exist precisely to protect people from the type of politics that are behind the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) who were victims of human rights abuses, and many who were valiant human rights defenders. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) equality and human rights body. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) human rights architecture. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Love Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report) - Fri 08 Dec 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) One world is the world I described, where human rights are flourishing and progress towards important - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government also have a strong track record of advancing LGBT rights, including the introduction of - Speech Link