Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his counterpart in Columbia on harassment of women and LGBTIQ+ people during protests.

Colombia is a UK Human Rights Priority Country and UK ministers and senior officials regularly raise human rights issues with the Colombian Government. Most recently, Minister Rutley visited Colombia last month and met with Álvaro Leyva, Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the UK's ongoing support for the Colombian peace process and other security and social challenges. We are clear that we support the right of all Colombians to protest peacefully, and that the right to peaceful assembly and association must be guaranteed.