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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 09 2024

Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific Programme
Document: UK WPS National Action Plan (PDF, 8.5MB) (PDF)

Found: From increasing female recruitment in the British Armed Forces and our negotiating teams, to working


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024
Document: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024 (webpage)

Found: implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement between the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray


Parliamentary Research
The Horn of Africa and the Red Sea - CBP-10000
Apr. 18 2024

Found: However, since April 2023 the country has been in the grip of a conflict between the Sudanese Armed


Written Question
Tigray: Armed Conflict
Wednesday 10th April 2024

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).


Lords Chamber
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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


Parliamentary Research
International affairs and defence: Parliamentary debates and statements in the 2022-23 session - CBP-9824
Jan. 17 2024

Found: Africa, agreed at COP26 Answering Member: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (FCDO) 4 July 2022 823 cc853 -6 Tigray


Written Question
Tigray: Armed Conflict
Thursday 21st December 2023

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

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statement published by Refugees International on 27 November concerning the war in Tigray, which stated that "between 40 and 50 per cent of women experienced gender-based violence"; and what steps they are taking, together with international partners, to bring those responsible to justice.

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

We welcome independent reporting such as Refugees International's and are appalled by the reports of gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence committed by all sides during the conflict in Northern Ethiopia. The United Kingdom condemns sexual violence unequivocally and without exception and stands with all victims and survivors. We continue to call for the Government of Ethiopia to develop and implement an inclusive and credible Transitional Justice policy, to ensure accountability for atrocities and human rights violations including gender-based violence and have offered support to the Government of Ethiopia on this. Through our human rights and peacebuilding programme, the United Kingdom is helping to build the investigative capacity of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to deliver justice and accountability for victims, including survivors of gender-based violence. Our humanitarian programming also involves work to improve the availability and accessibility of services for survivors.


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) As Antony Blinken said at the very start of the conflict,“how Israel does this matters. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) It will not end the 70-year-old conflict, but it gives us a place to begin. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) over which the UK has no control, and a ceasefire that neither side in the conflict wants. - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) west bank, where Hamas are not in power, around 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or armed - Speech Link