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Scheduled Event - Monday 10th June
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Lords - Oral questions - Main Chamber
Direction of aid and development funds to marginal groups in Pakistan, including Dalit women and children, following the UN Permanent Representative's statement in November 2023 during the country's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council
MP: Lord Harries of Pentregarth
Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA): evaluation
Document: (PDF)

Found: Countries MX – Mexico NDC – National Determined Contributions NI – Nigeria PE – Peru PK – Pakistan

Written Question
Pakistan: Development Aid
Thursday 16th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 25 April (HL Deb cols 642GC–644GC), whether they plan to provide official development assistance to the government of Pakistan for the purposes of seizing assets of owners of brick kilns illegally using bonded labour so that those assets can be reused for the education and welfare of families trapped in bonded labour.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK is committed to eradicating all forms of modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking anywhere in the world. In Pakistan, our Aawaz II Accountability, Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme and Asia Regional Child Labour Programme are working with partners, including the Government of Pakistan, to reduce child and bonded labour. Meanwhile, our Girls and Out of School Action for Learning programme is improving education outcomes for marginalised children from the most vulnerable sections of society. The UK is aiming to triple Official Development Assistance to Pakistan this financial year. We will continue to use our funding to support Pakistan's long-term development, focusing on improving human capital (health, education, gender equality), governance and human rights, macroeconomic stability and trade, and climate resilience.

Written Question
Pakistan: Development Aid
Thursday 16th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 25 April (HL Deb cols 640GC–644GC), whether any development funding for Pakistan will be allocated to providing advice and assistance to the government of that country to create a national trust fund to support the education of children from the families of bonded labour.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK is committed to eradicating all forms of modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking anywhere in the world. In Pakistan, our Aawaz II Accountability, Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme and Asia Regional Child Labour Programme are working with partners, including the Government of Pakistan, to reduce child and bonded labour. Meanwhile, our Girls and Out of School Action for Learning programme is improving education outcomes for marginalised children from the most vulnerable sections of society. The UK is aiming to triple Official Development Assistance to Pakistan this financial year. We will continue to use our funding to support Pakistan's long-term development, focusing on improving human capital (health, education, gender equality), governance and human rights, macroeconomic stability and trade, and climate resilience.

Select Committee
New Look
 SFS0005 - Sustainability of the fashion sector: follow up

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: We are also collaborating through the International ACCORD in Bangladesh and Pakistan and the Action

Parliamentary Research
Refugees and the UK's international aid response - CBP-10024
May. 15 2024

Found: the country of origin and country of asylum for over 100,000 refugees (including Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan

Select Committee
Global Water Security Center at the University of Alabama
 CCS0005 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: sugar come from water-stressed regions of the world, such as Spain, South Africa, northern India, Pakistan

Select Committee
Conflict and Environment Observatory
 CCS0019 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: personnel following Storm Dennis in the UK,19 and providing emergency equipment following floods in Pakistan

Select Committee
King's College London, King's College London, King's College London, Imperial College London, and Reporting Project on Mexico’s Environmental Defenders
 CCS0027 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: imports place a heavy burden on their ability to service international debt (for example Bangladesh, Pakistan

Select Committee
ActionAid UK
 CCS0024 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: seen climate extreme weathers across East Africa with droughts and floods, worst flooding ever in Pakistan