Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: The six-monthly report on Hong Kong: 1 July to 31 December 2023. 37p.Found: This law, rushed through the legislative process, is likely incompatible with international human rights
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group statement, April 2024Found: G7 Leaders’ Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament, and the unprecedented devastation and immense human
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: We remain concerned about the human rights situation in China, including in Xinjiang and Tibet.
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: Security Council Resolutions and call upon them to immediately cease such activities.
Mentions:
1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) Security Council, Russia and China, nor of course by Iran or North Korea. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) will accelerate, with the rights norms to proportionate military response in effect no longer applicable.At - Speech Link
3: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) , human-led and human-over-the-loop AI. - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) I share the optimism of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, that this is both possible and necessary.Human rights - Speech Link
Found: OCHA, Sudan situation report , 23 February 2024 12 FCDO, UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the safety of British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Under an exchange of Memoranda to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) passport holders are eligible for consular assistance in third countries, but not in Hong Kong, Macao or mainland China. Where we have humanitarian or human rights concerns about the treatment of BN(O) passport holders in Hong Kong, Macao or mainland China, we can lobby the relevant authorities, raise issues in international fora and demonstrate our political support. For example, on 8 March, we raised the alleged treatment of Andy Li at the UN Human Rights Council. Our diplomats in Hong Kong regularly attend court to observe a number of national security cases, including for Jimmy Lai's, the NSL 47 and others. On 16 February, the Foreign Secretary raised prosecutions under the National Security Law with his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic support his Department provides to British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Under an exchange of Memoranda to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) passport holders are eligible for consular assistance in third countries, but not in Hong Kong, Macao or mainland China. Where we have humanitarian or human rights concerns about the treatment of BN(O) passport holders in Hong Kong, Macao or mainland China, we can lobby the relevant authorities, raise issues in international fora and demonstrate our political support. For example, on 8 March, we raised the alleged treatment of Andy Li at the UN Human Rights Council. Our diplomats in Hong Kong regularly attend court to observe a number of national security cases, including for Jimmy Lai's, the NSL 47 and others. On 16 February, the Foreign Secretary raised prosecutions under the National Security Law with his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference.
Oral Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: I then go to Hants Council, which is our local council.
Oral Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: I then go to Hants Council, which is our local council.