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Commons Chamber
Treatment of Uyghur Women: Xinjiang Detention Camps - Thu 04 Feb 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Rahima is a brave woman, risking her safety to save her family and her people. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) The Labour party stands shoulder to shoulder with the Uyghur people. - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) A litany of terrible, terrible abuse —rape, mass internment, people going into concentration camps, people - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Other examples, such as the sexual violence suffered by Yazidi women and kidnapping and forced marriage - Speech Link
5: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) raises two or three horrific cases, and he is right to refer to the issue of sexual violence suffered by Yazidi - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsPing Pong (Hansard) - Tue 02 Feb 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) indeed, as the noble Lord pointed out, it did pass a resolution following the massacre of thousands of Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) It does concern the people of this nation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Well done, Marcus Rashford; thank God for people like him. - Speech Link
4: None Many people, including reputable people—mainly on the right, as it happens—such as Foreign Secretaries - Speech Link
5: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) I think her words will have moved people a great deal. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 - Thu 28 Jan 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) We buried over 104 people—I think it was 104 people—in a mass grave nearby. - Speech Link
2: Imran Ahmad Khan (IND - Wakefield) the holocaust, we continue to witness genocide, including the Anfal, Rwandan, Bosnian, Rohingya and Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Antony Higginbotham (CON - Burnley) and millions more—Soviet citizens, Polish people, gay people, Gypsies and many, many more. - Speech Link
4: Chris Clarkson (CON - Heywood and Middleton) The places—Darfur, Srebrenica, Rwanda—and the names—Yazidi, Rohingya, Uyghur—have changed, but the evil - Speech Link
5: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) of the holocaust; genocides happened again in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, and against the Yazidi - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade Bill
Consideration of Lords amendmentsPing Pong - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Food standards concern an awful lot of people. - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (CON - Totnes) What do the people who are suffering expect? - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) Well, in 2016, Parliament voted unanimously to recognise the Yazidi genocide, and the Government ignored - Speech Link
4: Imran Ahmad Khan (IND - Wakefield) I also ask Members to consider that in 2016, this House unanimously voted to recognise the Yazidi genocide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Report stage - Mon 07 Dec 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) Some 2.6 million people signed a number of related petitions, and 260,000 people took the trouble to - Speech Link
2: None people in this barbaric way, brutally silencing any dissent. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) At the end of the day, all of this is about the people and the victims. - Speech Link
4: None I met Yazidi and Christian leaders who told me, “What happened to us was way beyond imagination”. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) It involves efforts to exterminate and dehumanise a people—a whole set of people. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Freedom of Religion or Belief - Thu 26 Nov 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) It makes me think about what we are asking people of faith to do. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Many rich people put in large sums. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) vital lifeline of food, shelter, medical care and clean water for the most vulnerable, including the Yazidi - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade Bill
Committee stage - Tue 13 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) The winners from trade should be people and the planet. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) We rely on people to develop those services; we rely on people to take those services out and sell them - Speech Link
3: Lord Bradshaw (LDEM - Life peer) It has to be understood by a lot of people low down the food chain—not lawyers but lorry drivers or people - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) 2016, it is estimated that 10,000 Yazidis were kidnapped or killed by Daesh, and approximately 3,000 Yazidi - Speech Link
5: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) Change is easy enough for some people. My father milked cows. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rwanda - Tue 23 Jun 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) So when will the Government release the urgently needed resources for civil society to help LGBT people - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) or reform outdated legislation that discriminates against or fails to protect women, girls and LGBT people - Speech Link
3: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) to help victims of sexual violence in conflict, which is named after Nadia Murad, the inspirational Yazidi - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) of 155 Members of both Houses for the UK to initiate a Commonwealth programme giving the beleaguered people - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief - Thu 12 Mar 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) He is correct; the blasphemy laws are used maliciously against people. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) live in, and the people who were volunteers. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The stories of the Yazidi women, some of whom we have met, are horrendous. - Speech Link
4: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) Did you know that people cannot be buried in plastic bags? I did not. - Speech Link
5: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) In New York, five people were stabbed as they celebrated Hanukkah. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Development: Freedom of Religion or Belief - Thu 06 Feb 2020
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (CON - Life peer) My Lords, is the noble Baroness aware of the acute suffering of the Yazidi people, particularly girls - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sugg (CON - Life peer) The UK has played a crucial role in galvanising international efforts to secure justice for the Yazidi - Speech Link