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Lords Chamber
Women, Peace and Security Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 15 Nov 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) front and centre of our diplomatic, security and conflict work. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) Can the Minister outline how SRHR is addressed in conflict situations? - Speech Link
3: Earl of Courtown (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We witness persistent conflict, mass displacement and threats to fundamental freedoms. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Gaza, Sudan and Tigray were also mentioned. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Horn of Africa - Tue 29 Oct 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Since conflict erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April last year - Speech Link
2: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) The ongoing Houthi conflict, fuelled by Iranian arms, disrupts shipping routes across the Gulf of Aden - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) Conflict will resolve nothing, just make a very bad situation a lot worse. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) This included plans to implement the cessation of hostilities agreement that brought the Tigray conflict - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ethiopia Famine: 40th Anniversary - Thu 17 Oct 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) between the Ethiopian armed forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front,“belligerent parties on - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) armed conflict had erupted elsewhere. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Sadly, of course, it is the usual suspects of armed conflict, communal violence, flooding and localised - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We know that the conflict in Tigray claimed the lives of up to 600,000 people.The noble Lord, Lord Alton - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Tue 14 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) forces and armed groups, yet how many of us here today knew that? - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) There are 614 million women and girls living in conflict regions. - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between the Sudan armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid - Speech Link
4: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Women are not mere collateral damage to conflict. - Speech Link
5: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Sexual violence is often used in conflict and in post-conflict zones; it is important to say that refugees - Speech Link


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) conflict to break out. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) Then came the conflict, the war—the genocide—and his life altered. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) I asked for a JACS—joint analysis of conflict and stability—assessment. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) have been displaced by coups and armed insurgency in the Sahel. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) This is in relation to the conflict in the Middle East. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Where were the blue helmets as 600,000 were killed in Tigray while the world looked away? - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Leeds (Bshp - Bishops) prioritising conflict prevention rather than resolution alone. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) We are seen as either bystanders or complicit in the current conflict in Gaza. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) on its human rights policies on freedom of religion or belief and preventing sexual violence in conflict - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) conflict and should not be responded to in the same fashion.To conclude, we need a national strategy - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) After all that we have seen in Ukraine, Gaza, Tigray, Darfur and Xinjiang, is that really still the UK - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Since the outbreak of conflict in April, over 6.3 million people have been displaced. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We have enhanced our atrocity risk monitoring, including monitoring of conflict-related sexual violence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) in the region, guarantee that people in Gaza who are forced to flee during this conflict can return - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) As Antony Blinken said at the very start of the conflict,“how Israel does this matters. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It will not end the 70-year-old conflict, but it gives us a place to begin. - Speech Link
4: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) over which the UK has no control, and a ceasefire that neither side in the conflict wants. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hunger: East Africa and the Horn of Africa - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) Even during the Syria conflict, Lebanon’s population increased by 25%. - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) I want to start with Sudan because the humanitarian consequences of the conflict are simply dire. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) As has been laid out eloquently this morning, the conflict has placed the entire country in jeopardy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sudan - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) The violence broke out between the Sudanese armed forces, the SAF, and the Rapid Support Forces, the - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) The violence is spreading across the country, and an already dire conflict could get even worse. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) What he says about drought and conflict is right. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) the conflict stopping. - Speech Link
5: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) What attitude do we believe that Egypt is taking to the conflict? - Speech Link