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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 Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) few minutes I will focus on three particular cases that underline why a Bill of this kind is needed: Tigray - Speech Link
4: 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: 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
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Friend that I was recently in TCI and I understand the situation there. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, and tensions are escalating globally, as well as in our own - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) It is a dreadful, possibly intractable situation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) are about 60 million people in Africa, the Middle East and central Asia who, even now in the present situation - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Add to that the numbers from Tigray and from Eritrea—a tiny country from which half a million people - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) select a panel of judges from a mix of nationalities to hear these appeals against refusals of asylum or humanitarian - 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 Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) recommendation 7 of the Truro report and genocide and, in the light of what we have seen in Sudan, Tigray - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Yet no country in the rich world is acting with anything like the urgency the situation demands. - Speech Link
4: 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
5: 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


Lords Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mon 11 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) China’s blocking of a UN debate on the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on the situation in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) assessment of whether UK engagement may contribute to a violation of human rights or international humanitarian - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) The Foreign Secretary has been clear that Israel’s actions must comply with international humanitarian - 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) unsettled.Examples of groups that are targeted include the Yazidis and groups in Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Tigray - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Government of Pakistan, which I hope the Minister will look at and consider as well.Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Tigray - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) ill-prepared to respond to some of the greatest foreign policy crises of our time: Sudan, Ukraine, Tigray - Speech Link
4: 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
5: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) The situation is utterly bleak. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The situation compared with 2010 is striking. More cases of rape are being prosecuted. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) ActionAid has also talked about the situation facing pregnant women giving birth under bombardment. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) There are countless dead in Ethiopia-Tigray and in Azerbaijan-Armenia. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) I am utterly depressed about the situation, as are most of my constituents. - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Some are purely for humanitarian reasons. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) issue.Similar speech is reported to have greatly contributed to the violence and potential genocide in Tigray - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) She was right to highlight not only the situation of the Uyghur Muslims in China, which we often hear - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) out, as the right reverend Prelate has, that the opportunities for error on grounds of fact in this situation - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) , on her amendment.There have been a number of speeches that have reflected on the extremity of the situation - Speech Link
3: None In a humanitarian context, surely we should not do nothing in terms of finding out where these people - Speech Link
4: None This morning, I spoke to humanitarian workers in Tigray. - Speech Link
5: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) But we need to look beyond that if we are trying to find something that will beat the situation that - Speech Link