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Overseas Development Assistance: Gender-based Violence

Debate between Baroness Helic and Lord Fowler
Tuesday 28th April 2020

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Fowler Portrait The Lord Speaker
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Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho? Baroness Helic.

Baroness Helic Portrait Baroness Helic (Con)
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My Lords, fighting sexual and gender-based violence remains the most chronically underfunded sector in the humanitarian appeals of the United Nations. What consideration has been given to allocating a specific minimum percentage of the DfID budget to fighting sexual and gender-based violence not only during emergencies but as part of the regular allocation of funds?

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