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Select Committee
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, and Heritage Foundation

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Again, the state is unable to provide for the people.


Select Committee
Middle East Program, CSIS, RUSI, Jonathan Wilks, and The University of Exeter

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Again, the state is unable to provide for the people.


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) Institute, and I have spent time with, and campaigned alongside, survivors of atrocity violence, from Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) They never saw these people again. - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Some 18 months ago, people on the ground warned that a new genocide was likely. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) It has taken a lot of rights back from the local people. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) They described the chaos of people trying to locate their loved ones, and of people abandoning their - Speech Link
2: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Not all of the people who set out made it to Armenia; some died on the way.I pay tribute to the people - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I do not know any of the people in the Public Gallery, by the way, but I am sure that some of those people - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) One in 30 people in the country is a refugee. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 13 of 2023–24 - LLN-2024-0015
Mar. 18 2024

Found: , the Rwanda genocide , the Srebrenica genocide, and acts of genocide in Cambodia and against the Yazidi


Bill Documents
18 Mar 2024 - Briefing papers
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 13
Genocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL] 2023-24

Found: , the Rwanda genocide , the Srebrenica genocide, and acts of genocide in Cambodia and against the Yazidi


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) year ago that I flew into Irbil and visited Duhok, Shekhan, the holy site of Lalish and several of the Yazidi - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) boys, abducted male children to fight as child soldiers, and kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery Yazidi - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Following that recognition, we continue to advocate for the full implementation of the Yazidi survivors - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Relationship between the UK and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq - CDP-2024-0025
Feb. 01 2024

Found: Establishment of Kurdish autonomous region in Ira q The Kurds are a non- Arab, predominantly Sunni -Muslim people


Commons Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) Yet we see people, often well-meaning people—it is concerning that even people in this House have made - Speech Link
2: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) Particularly after the first strike, a great many people, including a number of people in this House—perhaps - Speech Link
3: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) improvement: both economically, in terms of business and trade between the countries involved, and in people-to-people - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) We saw that with ISIS, which is a non-state actor, and arguably nobody’s proxy, in the use of Yazidi - Speech Link
5: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) People—not simply the Houthis, but people in the Arab world, the Muslim world and in our own country—will - Speech Link


Select Committee
Aid to the Church in Need
MENA0009 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: by Daesh (ISIS), the kidnapping, rape, forced marriage and conversion to Islam of Christian and Yazidi