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Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Vigilante violence against Muslims and Dalits has been accompanied by a sharp rise in attacks against - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
UK response to international human rights abuses - CDP-2024-0011
Jan. 17 2024

Found: made to the Government of India about recent attacks on (a) Christians in Manipur and (b) Muslims and Dalits


Select Committee
Submission on the Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 with government response

Scrutiny evidence Nov. 30 2023

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: continue to be practised despite laws prohibiting them [...] 2.4.9 Women from minority groups, including Dalits


Written Question
India: Violence
Wednesday 18th October 2023

Asked by: Stephen Timms (Labour - East Ham)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of India about recent attacks on (a) Christians in Manipur and (b) Muslims and Dalits elsewhere in India.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan

The British High Commission in New Delhi consistently monitors human rights across India including attacks on religious minorities and others. The UK Government has a broad and deep partnership with the Government of India, and we discuss all elements of our relationship, including human rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB), and raise issues where we have them. Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for South Asia, raised human rights and the situation in Manipur, with the Indian Government during his visit to India in May. He also met representatives of diverse faith groups.


Select Committee
India Labour Solidarity
TFA0025 - UK trade policy: food and agriculture

Written Evidence Oct. 17 2023

Inquiry: UK trade policy: food and agriculture
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: the sector, with information on treatment of women and workers from the oppressed-caste (largely Dalits


Select Committee
National Secular Society
HBA0005 - So-called honour-based abuse

Written Evidence Mar. 29 2023

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: and despite continuous calls from groups representing those vulnerable to caste discrimination (Dalits


Tweet
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer) - @DavidAltonHL
18 Dec 2022, 2:42 p.m.

Shambhavi Madan’s secular Hindu perspective on Anti-Conversion Laws & their role in “Mobilising Coercive Power” against India’s Dalits, Muslims, Christians & Adivasis. No to coercion,yes to freely made decisions to embrace or reject faith https://t.co/M0o0ghiMK4 via @thewire_in

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Tweet
Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham) - @SarahChampionMP
30 Nov 2022, 7:12 p.m.

How India’s caste system keeps Dalits from accessing disaster relief by ⁦@newhumanitarian⁩ https://t.co/4O2vqWU0Xj

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Grand Committee
Human Rights: India - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) crucial cases involving violations of human rights … Caste-based discrimination and violence against Dalits - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) but I expect that the Minister will confirm that discrimination against Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Dalits - Speech Link
3: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) All this is apart from the long-standing problem of Dalits getting recourse to justice when their village - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Negotiating Objectives for a Free Trade Agreement with India - Tue 06 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) When Dalits try to exercise their rights or resist abuse and exploitation, they are faced with extremely - Speech Link