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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 07 Jan 2020
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Nineveh plain, but Iran has already mobilised Shabak proxies, endangering the reconstruction of ancient Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) Almost 50 people were killed.” - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Stabilization, which has completed 235 of 388 projects in Christian areas and 55 of 98 projects in Yazidi - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Yazidis: Attempted Genocide - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) people of Northern Iraq, following the genocide attempted by the so-called Islamic State. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) people and the many other victims of Daesh’s crimes in Iraq. - Speech Link
3: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) However, the reality is that, more than five years after thousands of Yazidi women and girl children - Speech Link
4: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) because of the Turkish invasion, and that a number of these people have now fled to Iraq? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Persecution of Christians Overseas - Thu 18 Jul 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) It is easy to brush this off, but there are people living in fear, people living with often devastating - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) perpetrators who abuse the religious belief of others.Finally, as the chair of the all-party group on the Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Your people will be my people and your God my God.”We need more of that type of intervention.In Pakistan - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I have been working to raise the issue of the persecution of Christians, people of other faiths and people - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) Different religious communities—Yazidi, Shabak, Kakai, Christian, Shi’a and Sunni— continued to live - Speech Link
2: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) We are talking about a few hundred people. - Speech Link
3: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) going there for good reasons could be caught up with people going there for bad reasons. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Displaced Yazidis and Survivors of Daesh Violence - Tue 02 Jul 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken (1) to support access to justice for displaced people - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) My Lords, the UK has supported accountability for Daesh crimes in Iraq, including those against the Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Can she tell us what will happen next to bring people to justice by, for instance, supporting Germany - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) international efforts to pass at the Security Council the very resolution that is helping desperate people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Widows Day - Wed 19 Jun 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Loomba (CB - Life peer) We need all the help we can get to let people know what these poor women go through. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (CON - Life peer) The remaining speakers were from the USA, and were very eminent and able people. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As a woman, I do not wish to see the international community turn a blind eye to Yazidi or Kurdish women - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Global Gender Equality - Mon 17 Jun 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (CON - Life peer) security agenda as a whole.Daesh’s use of rape and sexual slavery as a genocidal strategy towards the Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tonge (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As you have heard, there were over 8,000 people this time. - Speech Link
3: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) My most telling visits were to the Yazidi families in the camps in Duhok. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goudie (LAB - Life peer) We need more funding for good, qualified people to work alongside our people. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 02 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) More than 400,000 people have been displaced in the crisis, and more than 30,000 have fled to Nigeria - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) It states, for example, that 80% of the people who suffer persecution for their religious belief are - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) example of courage in the face of that persecution is Nadia Murad, the recent Nobel peace prize winner, a Yazidi - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) That is quite wrong, and it is giving people permission to do that kind of thing again. - Speech Link
5: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) Gentleman’s question, and the strong links that exist between people in Wales and people in Lesotho. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sexual Violence - Tue 02 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) terms of the law, how will that deter others from committing sexual violence in the future and how will Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) or enslaved.Last year, Denis Mukwege—who was referred to by the noble Baroness—with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tonge (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Where are these people coming from? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region in Iraq - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John Howell (CON - Henley) We have already heard that 10,000 people were injured in Kurdistan, and they need treatment. - Speech Link
2: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) To hear people of the Muslim faith, who are Kurds, talk about their empathy with the Jewish people and - Speech Link
3: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) As a number of colleagues noted, we stood by the Kurdish people in 1991. - Speech Link
4: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) It is a fantastic, wonderful place, with wonderful people, where people are always made to feel welcome - Speech Link