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Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) targeting of civilians by the Sri Lankan military. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, which governs marriage in the Muslim community, contains numerous - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Members will be aware, this House is well acquainted with the issue of Sri Lankan human rights. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Those are key strands of the UK Government’s policy towards Sri Lanka. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, and arbitrarily accused Tamils of links to terrorist organisations.”That - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) He mentioned the Muslim community. - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Lankan perpetrators of human rights abuses.Despite that, the UK is yet to sanction a single alleged - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) The UK delegation led work on the most recent UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: William Wragg (CON - Hazel Grove) the UK being in breach of our commitments under UN Security Council resolution 2334. - Speech Link
2: Julie Elliott (LAB - Sunderland Central) , in flagrant defiance of successive UN Security Council resolutions, which the UK helped draft and voted - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) the BDS movement, has on its board organisations including the Council of National and Islamic Forces - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Muslim organisations, Jewish organisations, trade unions, human rights organisations, libertarian organisations - Speech Link
5: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) Lankan Administration owing to their genocidal attack on the Tamils, with their continued abuse of human - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sri Lanka - Wed 09 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) level of Sri Lankan society. - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) In the UK, the Tamil Guardian has had its content taken offline because of complaints from the Sri Lankan - Speech Link
3: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) primarily against Tamils and Muslim Sri Lankans, must be repealed. - Speech Link
4: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) organisations in all bilateral talks on UK official development assistance to Sri Lanka to ensure that - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon made that point to Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe in July and to Sri Lankan - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sri Lanka - Wed 13 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) to the Sri Lankan people. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) on the island of Sri Lanka, including the Tamil and Muslim minorities? - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) After that, the UK, with Sri Lanka, jointly moved a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) many towns and cities across the UK; I pay tribute to the local Sri Lankan community in Berkshire. - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (LAB - Ilford South) Will the UK Government make representations to the effect that the new Sri Lankan Government must be - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The following year, in 2017, Darren Osborne drove a van into a group of Muslim worshippers in Finsbury - Speech Link
2: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) week, I held a surgery at the Khadijah mosque and met my local branch of the Conservative Muslim Forum - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) more than 200 cases sampled, 96% of parents were Indian or Sri Lankan. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) seeking asylum to enter the UK, as long as those organisations do not charge for their service.Amendment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Islamophobia Awareness Month - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) A coalition of more than 450 Muslim organisations has boycotted the Government’s review of Prevent in - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Has she met the excellent, new and young secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain? - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Sri Lankan Muslim Cultural Centre, one of the contenders for best-run mosque in the UK, played a - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) 9% at Christians, while 16% of offences were unknown.Excellent organisations such as the Muslim Council - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
6: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
7: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link
8: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) the Muslim Council of Britain. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Religious and Ethnic Minority Communities - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) worrying rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in Sri Lanka; the rise of antisemitism and other forms of discrimination - Speech Link
2: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) in Sri Lanka was raised by many of the Sri Lankan diaspora who got in touch with right hon. and hon. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) action to stop what was happening with Muslim cremations in Sri Lanka. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 19 May 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) As chair of the UK-ASEAN Business Council, I have been particularly glad to support HMG’s successful - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) in Sri Lanka, there is huge tension over the UNHCR’s report on alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan - Speech Link
3: Lord Northbrook (CON - Excepted Hereditary) of the UN Security Council. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) of the UN Security Council. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sri Lanka - Thu 18 Mar 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) Muslim communities; is profoundly concerned that the Sri Lankan Government has refused to investigate - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) Muslim communities; is profoundly concerned that the Sri Lankan Government has refused to investigate - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK, as a vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Sri - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) , and as chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Anti-Muslim rumours are also a regular feature of life on Sri Lankan social media.Since the bombings, - Speech Link
6: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) military and state.The UK has a long record of training Sri Lankan military and security forces on human - Speech Link