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Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Let me begin by declaring an interest as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on the Yazidi people - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) I can confirm that we have resettled over 40 Yazidi people through both the United Kingdom resettlement - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gender Specific Religious Persecution - Thu 17 Mar 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) fact is that from Tuesday there has not been the same level of whipping, which indicates that many people - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) Thousands of Yazidi women were abducted and held as sex slaves by ISIS soldiers. - Speech Link
3: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) As I said, people in my constituency and, I am quite sure, people across the United Kingdom want to make - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 03 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) will be aware from the debate in your Lordships’ House last night that there are still thousands of Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) I can confirm that the UK advocated strongly for the passage through Parliament of the Yazidi survivors - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) Domestic violence is a subject that is near to everybody’s heart and we are doing all we can to support people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 02 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) We know that people smugglers control the people they are smuggling, including stealing and taking their - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) atrocities then intensified in their number and scope.In 2019, I travelled to northern Iraq and met Yazidi - Speech Link
3: None There are people fleeing persecution and war, people facing genocide, who have nowhere to go. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Yazidi Genocide - Tue 08 Feb 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Members here recognise the genocide perpetrated against Christians and the Yazidi people by Daesh, but - Speech Link
2: Feryal Clark (LAB - Enfield North) We can no longer stand by and look the Yazidi people in the eye and do nothing. - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) The Government must and should recognise the massacre of the Yazidi people at the hands of Daesh. - Speech Link
4: Chris Heaton-Harris (CON - Daventry) It killed up to 10,000 Yazidi people and forced thousands to flee their homes. - Speech Link
5: Chris Heaton-Harris (CON - Daventry) I commend the courage of the Yazidi people in continuing their fight for justice; their recovery and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Committee stage - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) We drew the attention of the House to the plight of the Yazidi, Christian and other minorities who were - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 27 Jan 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) They do not talk about “rescuing”; they talk simply about “getting people out”, “pulling people out”, - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) , Slavic people, LGBT and disabled people and political and religious minorities. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) out against the Uyghurs in China, the plight of Christians in some countries, what happened to the Yazidi - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) , gay people and disabled people. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) more recent genocides that have taken place in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur and against the Yazidi - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Refugees: Mass Displacement - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) More recently, I have gone to Erbil to take testimonies from the Yazidi women who were raped and raped - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Before Christmas, I was in north Iraq and met Vian Dakhil, the Yazidi MP. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Development Strategy - Thu 16 Dec 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) It is long-term, tough work, working with people—not “to” people or “about” people. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) 13 million people last year. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Eccles (CON - Excepted Hereditary) to support old people like me. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) those most in need.On conflict, as the noble Lord indicated, last week I was in north Iraq meeting Yazidi - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Day - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Over the pandemic, it has carried on working with young people. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) She said:“The first time I realised the scale of rape as a weapon of war was when I was speaking to Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) In Iraq, the UK is one of the first donors to support the implementation of the Yazidi survivors law, - Speech Link