Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 590, 14 March 2024Found: Work – Seasonal Worker • Appendix Temporary Work – Creative Worker • Appendix Temporary Work – Religious
Mar. 13 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 22 February 2024 to 10 March 2024Found: Russia Rwanda São Tomé and Principe Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Member is entirely right about the importance of religious freedom, particularly in the circumstances - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Would the Minister for development and Africa please update the House on his recent visit to Ethiopia - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Friend the Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce), who is responsible for freedom of religion or belief, - Speech Link
Mar. 11 2024
Source Page: Understanding and responding to blasphemy extremismFound: In a common argument put forward by British blasphemy activists, he claims that freedom of speech is
Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) also be many Muslim women who are not in legally registered marriages, such as those who have had a religious - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) In one of our projects in South Africa, we have seen a reduction of 39% in reported rapes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) It is how a number of countries in Africa that I have been to are now working. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Mar. 07 2024
Inquiry: Human Rights at WorkFound: Freedom of expression and freedom of thought, conscience and religion are protected by the common law
Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) and has not had the chilling effect that we are often warned about in terms of infringements on the freedom - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) There are still 67 countries that criminalise homosexuality, 51 that restrict freedom of sexual and gender - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) the Rainbow ranking since 2015, but because of what we see in a number of countries across Europe, Africa - Speech Link
4: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Religion and religious expression is as intrinsic to the identity of some people as sexuality. - Speech Link
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Ms Seyi Omooba v (1) Michael Garrett Associates Ltd (ta Global Artists) (2) Leicester Theatre Ltd: [2024] EAT 30Found: Growing up she was close to her sister, Nettie, who left to work in Africa as a Christian missionary
Asked by: Marie Rimmer (Labour - St Helens South and Whiston)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of religious freedom in Mozambique; and if he will hold discussions with his counterparts in that country on religious freedom.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Article 54 of the Constitution of Mozambique provides for the right to practice religion freely and prohibits discrimination based on religion. This is generally upheld in practice but there have been some reports of Mozambican authorities not upholding the constitution. In May 2023, President Nyusi of Mozambique and I discussed UK support for the Government of Mozambique's response to IS-affiliated attacks carried out on civilians in Northern Mozambique. The UK is committed to defending Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) around the world. We work multilaterally and bilaterally to promote FoRB, and it remains an important priority for our work in Africa.
Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) That is certainly what occurred in Africa. - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) system of religious freedom abuses. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) Such wars often produce transnational extremist, political or religious ideologies. - Speech Link