Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Conflict-related sexual violence is not an inevitable consequence of war: UK statement at the UN Security CouncilFound: Conflict-related sexual violence is not an inevitable consequence of war: UK statement at the UN Security
Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)Found: A part of that is sexual violence.
Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (Department: Northern Ireland Office)Found: Instead of being depersonalised and just seen through the lens of the label “informer” or the violence
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: evidence based guidance for professionals working with children and young peopleFound: Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: evidence based guidance
Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) sexual violence advisers are needed across England and Wales to support the number of identified child - Speech Link
2: None sexual violence advisers who are designed to support adults. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Con - Life peer) She is absolutely right that victims and survivors of sexual violence should never have to choose between - Speech Link
4: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) Our argument was that the grief and trauma caused by serious violence and sexual crime was no less if - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Amendment 92 would ensure that those suspected of or charged with domestic abuse, sexual violence and - Speech Link
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: The UK is a long-standing supporter of Kosovo’s sovereignty and independence: UK statement at the UN Security CouncilFound: While we welcome the progress in December on the energy roadmap and licence plates, fundamental issues
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Stronger protections for stalking and harassment victimsFound: as is practicable that any prohibitions and requiremen ts requested within an application do not conflict
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in
Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) We are approaching 9 million people forcibly displaced, with evidence of systematic sexual violence and - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) The report describes atrocity crimes—including massacres, sexual violence, the burning of villages and - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) She recalls:“People have told me of ethnically targeted killings and sexual violence. - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Helic (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports by UN experts on 19 February of “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations” against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank by Israel Defence Forces; and whether they have offered practical support for investigating these alleged crimes, and for caring for survivors and witnesses.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK condemns human rights abuses and sexual violence unequivocally and without exception. As I [Lord Ahmad] said to the UN Security Council during the 11 March debate following the release of Special Representative Pramila Patten's report, it is vital that all reports of sexual violence are fully investigated to ensure justice for all victims and survivors and perpetrators are held to account.
The FCDO continues to closely monitor the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and stands ready to further utilise our Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) expertise and tools to ensure victims and survivors of CRSV, both Israeli and Palestinian, receive the holistic and survivor-centred support they need.
Through our PSVI programmes and dedicated funding totalling £60 million since 2012, we are leading work internationally to prevent conflict-related sexual violence and strengthen justice and support for all survivors.