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Lords Chamber
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It would re-energise commitments to international humanitarian law and rehabilitate Britain’s battered - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) I have spoken about the situation of the Uighurs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) It has also provided the ability to highlight atrocities in the People’s Republic of China, northern Ethiopia - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) two years after the beginning of the war in Tigray, the Government finally commissioned a JACS for Ethiopia - Speech Link
5: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We are clear about the need to avoid a Rafah offensive, and instead to secure an immediate humanitarian - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) The situation in Gaza is truly appalling, but the situation in the west bank is also a cause for huge - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Would the Minister for development and Africa please update the House on his recent visit to Ethiopia - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I was recently in Ethiopia, and was able to visit Tigray and the edge of the most food-insecure area, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The fiscal support the UK is providing contributes to maintaining public services, and our humanitarian - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) It is appalling that this is likely to get worse, not better.The situation internationally can be dire - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Intelligence Unit showed that by eliminating two NTDs—soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis—Ethiopia - Speech Link
4: Lord Loomba (XB - Life peer) A young woman’s ability to free herself from the situation of domestic violence and rape, and to make - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) That is the situation we are facing; we need to take it on board and make changes.The noble Baroness, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We could talk about Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen, Venezuela, the DRC, Syria and Ethiopia —the list goes on. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, and tensions are escalating globally, as well as in our own - Speech Link
3: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) On 1 January, Ethiopia, a key partner of the UK, signed an MoU with Somaliland, in which Ethiopia formally - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) It is a dreadful, possibly intractable situation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) We left behind a complex and unresolved situation that resulted in decades of conflict and bloodshed - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) In Yemen, in DRC, in Ethiopia, in Sudan and South Sudan and in Ukraine, conflict has exacerbated a global - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) a thought regarding China.The situation in the Levant is so distressing. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) We are facing a situation of dreadful suffering in Gaza; there can be no doubt about that. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) So there are some proper big bilateral programmes to countries in need, such as Ethiopia for instance.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) rights access to the country, and we also seek the full withdrawal of Eritrean troops from northern Ethiopia - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We are doing everything we can to end the appalling situation in Sudan, which my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The Minister has been clear about the extremely dangerous situation in Sudan. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The situation in Sudan that the hon. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) I have received thousands of emails regarding the Gaza situation alone, so that is where I would like - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Members of Parliament face to face, rather than what we have currently, particularly in the volatile situation - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The situation in China has been addressed many times, and I continue to hear from constituents with ongoing - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Gentleman on his work on behalf of the people of West Papua.Coming back to the situation in China, we - Speech Link
5: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) In a number of cases, whether it is Myanmar, Ethiopia or Sudan, I believe that there have been clear - 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: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) down; he has made his point.Fellow human beings, from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The clauses that talk about mere monitoring of the situation do not go far enough. - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Since 2015 we have issued more than half a million visas on humanitarian grounds, more than at any time - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) That would be inconsistent with rights to asylum and humanitarian protection under international law - Speech Link
5: None This whole situation is a mess. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defending the UK and Allies - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Houthis’ attacks risk worsening the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen itself. - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) in Gaza, Ethiopia and other countries—will his Government return to 0.7%? - Speech Link
3: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) With the recent deal between Ethiopia and Somaliland opening up the real possibility of international - Speech Link
4: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) He said that the Houthis’ attacks risked worsening the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen itself, before - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) We now see the malign hand of Iran throughout the middle east, creating situation after situation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) There is an overwhelming humanitarian case for generosity. - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Yet no country in the rich world is acting with anything like the urgency the situation demands. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Sandwich (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I will come back to that.The situation in north Africa and the Sahel has become more chaotic. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) We are now in a situation where it is very hard to believe the Government when they say that they are - Speech Link