Sep. 23 2024
Source Page: Equality and Human Rights Budget Advisory Group minutes: September 2023Found: her recent engagement with the Deputy First Minister and the Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees
Found: This means that a high number of refugees are escaping from Sudan every day, falling into the hands
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Ethics Guidance for Scottish Government Social ResearchFound: • Groups accessed via gatekeepers – including ethnic or cultural groups, asylum seekers and refugees
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice met with LGBT Youth Scotland to discuss Ending Conversion Practises: FOI ReleaseFound: Somerville, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice • Emma Roddick, Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Correspondence regarding housing emergencies: FOI ReleaseFound: The Migration and Refugees Minister wrote to the UK Government on 28 October to bring forward funding
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Democracy Matters Phase 2 Analysis of responsesFound: Many participants advocated representation from ethnic minority groups, refugees and those seeking asylum
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Former Minister for Equalities meeting with Robin White regarding ending conversion therapy/practices: FOI releaseFound: It was attended by Emma Roddick MSP (at the time acting as Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees
Sep. 19 2024
Source Page: Former Minister for Equalities meeting with Robin White regarding ending conversion therapy/practices: FOI releaseFound: Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate 05/03/2024 Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the UK responds adequately to the humanitarian crisis of the collapsed healthcare system in Gaza.
Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK Government is concerned about the worsening humanitarian context in Gaza. The FCDO is closely monitoring the impact of the conflict, including on health. We recently announced £5.5 million for UK-Med to support the ongoing work of its field hospitals and the rehabilitation of the emergency department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Since the start of the 2024/25 Financial Year we have also provided additional funding to humanitarian agencies including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (£21 million) and UNICEF (£6 million) for their activities, which include healthcare. We welcome the news that the UN's polio vaccine campaign is now underway, and that the UK's funding to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is supporting delivery. We continue to press Israel to increase humanitarian access, including health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) relief items.
Sep. 18 2024
Source Page: UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 - part 3: statutory guidanceFound: measures • We assess the numbers and situation of children and their families who are asylum seekers, refugees