Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) had a meeting with the International Justice Mission a couple of weeks ago, which has been working in India - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I will focus on human trafficking and its relevance to freedom of religion or belief—two distinct but - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) safety and security of its staff so that they can go about their business, serving both this country and India - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Indian high commission extremely seriously and we have been in close contact with the Government of India - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The report highlights the double vulnerability of women as religious minorities in Iran. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) pursue the meeting he suggests, and perhaps suggest a meeting with the envoys for gender equality and freedom - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) of speech and media, and freedom of religion and belief. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) This is the largest scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since world war two. - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) report by Freedom House. - Speech Link
4: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) Friend recall that about a year and a half ago on the border of Tibet and India, Chinese troops aggressively - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) numbers of menacing military manoeuvres in the Taiwan strait and hand-to-hand combat with neighbours in India - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) As the Secretary of State probably knows, I chair the all-party parliamentary group on international freedom - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) clear that individuals may be removed if they do not come “directly” from the territory where their freedom - Speech Link
3: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) around the world; never mind that the Government have returns agreements with Albania, Georgia, Nigeria, India - Speech Link
4: William Cash (CON - Stone) does not apply at all unless such refugees have come“directly from a territory where their life or freedom - Speech Link
5: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) If you face religious persecution in Iran, there is no scheme to which you can apply. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) apparently been completed, but the UK’s diplomatic presence in key countries in the region, including India - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) I am not a religious man, but I understand that there is a phrase in the Bible about how there is more - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (CON - Meriden) build on our relationships in the Indo-Pacific, not just with our existing friends, such as Australia, India - Speech Link
4: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) She is right: freedom of religion or belief is a litmus test for good behaviours by Government. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) I also note Sushma Bhatnagar in India, Yvonne Mak in Hong Kong, and Bee Wee, also initially from Hong - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) While only 5.5% of pilots in the UK are women, and 4.7% in the US, India leads the world in easing this - Speech Link
3: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) Government seek to work with our allies around the world in majority-Muslim countries which emphasise religious - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) aristocratic family; her father, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the first Earl of Lytton, was Governor-General of India - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) highlighted, whether it be Nigeria’s elections and the allegations of fraud, the persecution of Christians in India - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) We place great responsibility and focus on freedom of religion. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That has had a chilling effect on journalists, human rights advocates and religious minorities.The raids - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) The UK’s support for media freedom is well known. - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) He also raises the importance of media freedom. - Speech Link
4: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Human rights abuses, discrimination and governmental scapegoating against India’s religious minorities - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) The Ukrainians are fighting not just for their freedom, but for the cause of freedom around the world - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) short order.What progress has the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office made with our friends in India - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) clear evidence, however, that sanctions are being widely evaded, with goods and oil being exported to India - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) freedom and other human rights are escalating. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (Bishops - Bishops) There are significant cultural, religious and historical antecedents that need to be understood as having - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) but for the freedom of us all. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We continue to have very open and candid exchanges with India. - Speech Link