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Westminster Hall
Nigeria: Armed Violence (Rural Communities) - Tue 27 Nov 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Given his knowledge of Nigeria, can the hon. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am reminded of the abduction of schoolgirls and young women, probably into forced marriages and forced - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Dundee West (Chris Law) when I intervened on him, about the abduction and kidnapping of schoolchildren - Speech Link
4: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) There is an extensive range of DFID programming in Nigeria, but it requires political will in Nigeria - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nigeria - Thu 28 Jun 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) Do Her Majesty’s Government agree that there has been an escalation in Nigeria of late? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) that modern Nigeria faces. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) time I was in Nigeria, I visited four villages which had been destroyed by Fulani. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Its activity—the abduction of schoolgirls and the killings in which it has engaged—is appalling. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Protecting Children in Conflict Areas - Wed 25 Apr 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) grave violations, which are killing and maiming, recruitment and use of children, sexual violence, abduction - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (CON - Mid Derbyshire) Armed conflicts have left children vulnerable to appalling forms of violence, sexual exploitation, abduction - Speech Link
3: Pauline Latham (CON - Mid Derbyshire) something like that; attacks on schools or hospitals, which have happened again and again in Syria; abduction - Speech Link
4: Stephen Twigg (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) were there.I have also been reflecting on the experience of the predecessor Committee, when we went to Nigeria - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Internally Displaced People - Wed 25 Apr 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) They also remain at high risk of physical attack, sexual assault and abduction, and frequently are deprived - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) If I am not mistaken, one of the signatories is Nigeria, which has 2 million internally displaced people - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) When our soldiers and development experts are deployed in northern Nigeria—I have seen for myself the - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) whose treatment by previous UK Governments could properly be described as ethnic cleansing or indeed abduction - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Thu 26 Oct 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ann Coffey (TIG - Stockport) We need to consider the better use of child abduction warning notices, and the national referring mechanism - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) deeply distressing, both for my constituent and my constituency staff.My constituent was trafficked from Nigeria - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Freedom of Religion or Belief Day - Thu 26 Oct 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) criminal offence in countries including Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Mauritania, Russia and Nigeria - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) When we hear about the abduction, torture, rape, loss of property, destruction of property and forced - Speech Link
3: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) In Nigeria, 1.8 million people have been displaced by Boko Haram. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Civil Society Space - Thu 26 Jan 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) into the wider trend of silencing civil society that has sparked protests across Pakistan against the abduction - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) criminalise the activities of human rights defenders or outspoken advocates, resulting, in extreme cases, in abduction - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) When I went to Nigeria, I was concerned that I had to fight to get a representative of a major Christian - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK-West Africa Relations - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Duddridge (CON - Rochford and Southend East) By 2050 a quarter of the world’s population will be in Africa, and a quarter of them in Nigeria. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Lefroy (CON - Stafford) As Nigeria is one of the two countries in the world where malaria is most prevalent, it is vital that - Speech Link
3: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) That visit followed the distressing abduction of the Chibok girls, which people around the world heard - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Islamic terrorism is not confined to Nigeria. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nigeria - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) they have made of the continuing intercommunal conflicts in the northern and Middle Belt states of Nigeria - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) and found deeply disturbing evidence of continuing violence by Boko Haram, with the abduction of many - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) We work closely with the Government of Nigeria on these matters. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) We are assisting the Government of Nigeria, particularly from the security point of view. - Speech Link