Bahrain: Human Rights Abuses
Debate between Lord Fowler and Baroness Northover(3 years, 8 months ago)
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The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
The noble Baroness is muted and we cannot hear her. We will have to move on to the noble Baroness, Lady Northover.
Baroness Northover (LD)
My Lords, far from what the Minister has said about progress, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the UN have all concluded that human rights abuses have been getting worse in Bahrain over the past few years. So why do the Government still fund training for organisations in Bahrain that are implicated in human rights abuses, such as the Special Investigations Unit?
Syria
Debate between Lord Fowler and Baroness Northover(4 years, 7 months ago)
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The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
The noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, is not here. The noble Baroness, Lady Northover.
Baroness Northover (LD)
What realistic assessment has been made of the incidence of the coronavirus in Idlib and in Syria as a whole, and how can testing be increased? Does the Minister agree that an urgent, comprehensive and co-ordinated emergency response plan is now required?