Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) happened as a result of our pulling away from our international obligations.It is commonly said that armed - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Close to two years after the beginning of the war in Tigray, the Government finally commissioned a JACS - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people who have died as a consequence of the war in Tigray as a result of (1) fatalities in the conflict, (2) displacement, and (3) illness and hunger caused by the conflict.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Reliable information on casualties caused by the conflict in Tigray is very scarce. Armed violence is likely to have cased thousands of battlefield casualties. Calculating deaths attributable to displacement, hunger and illness is more challenging. This is due to the breakdown in medical and communications services in Tigray during the conflict, exacerbated by the negligible levels of humanitarian access all of which hampered information gathering and accurate reporting.
Mentions:
1: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) The deliberate use of mass sexual violence in armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and the - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) forces and armed groups, yet how many of us here today knew that? - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between the Sudan armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) large-scale and often ethnically targeted sexual violence that was evidenced in Ethiopia during the Tigray - Speech Link
Found: However, since April 2023 the country has been in the grip of a conflict between the Sudanese Armed
Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) attacks in northern Kosovo, including the so-called Banjska attack in October this year, were planned by armed - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) ill-prepared to respond to some of the greatest foreign policy crises of our time: Sudan, Ukraine, Tigray - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) After all that we have seen in Ukraine, Gaza, Tigray, Darfur and Xinjiang, is that really still the UK - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) then need to be proactive by using that greater understanding of those driving the violence to press armed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) , to diminish the Houthis’ ability to disrupt maritime navigation, and we acknowledge and thank our Armed - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) Armed conflicts have worsened human suffering and forced millions to flee: roughly 2.7 million people - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Where were the blue helmets as 600,000 were killed in Tigray while the world looked away? - Speech Link
May. 09 2024
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Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific ProgrammeFound: From increasing female recruitment in the British Armed Forces and our negotiating teams, to working
Found: Africa, agreed at COP26 Answering Member: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (FCDO) 4 July 2022 823 cc853 -6 Tigray
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 efforts since the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in November 2022 to achieve justice and accountability for conflict-related sexual violence in Tigray, and what support they are providing to those efforts.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is committed to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence in Ethiopia. We have consistently called for an end to the appalling gender-based violence committed across Ethiopia, including sexual violence, particularly during the Tigray conflict. We therefore welcome the recent agreement to implement a comprehensive national Transitional Justice policy aimed at accountability, redress for victims, reconciliation, and healing. The UK has called for the perpetrators to be held to account and the importance of a victim-centered, gender-sensitive approach. We will work with the Ethiopian Government and civil society in their efforts to hold perpetrators to account, including building the capacity of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission through the UK's Human Rights and Peacebuilding programme (HARP).