Russia: Human Rights

(asked on 29th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has read the report by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission on human rights in Russia; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendations in that report.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 4th February 2019

The FCO is aware of this report. Recommendation 1 calls for the UK government to support human rights defenders in Russia. I did just this in my statement last month on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persecution in Chechnya. Recommendation 2 raises the important work of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Moscow Mechanism. We have led the way in issuing joint EU statements in the Council of Europe and OSCE following the release of the Mechanism's report. And on recommendation 5, I agree on the importance of calling on the Russian Government to investigate human rights abuses, and to end impunity for perpetrators. We have made such calls in a number of recent UK and multilateral statements.

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