Hong Kong’s Farcical Election – Letter in today’s Times

Hong Kong’s Farcical Election – Letter in today’s Times

Hong Kong’s Farcical Election - Letter in today’s Times The Times:   HONG KONG DEMOCRACY FOILED   Sir, Beijing’s assertion that the election of a sole opposition candidate to Hong Kong’s election committee is proof of the city’s flourishing democracy is an...

In two letters received today from James Duddridge MP, the Africa Minister, he addressed concerns about the targeting of Tigrayans throughout Ethiopia and repeated the UK’s insistence that independent human rights investigations should be permitted.

In two letters received today from James Duddridge MP, the Africa Minister, he addressed concerns about the targeting of Tigrayans throughout Ethiopia and repeated the UK’s insistence that independent human rights investigations should be permitted.

In two letters received today from James Duddridge MP, the Africa Minister, he addressed concerns about the targeting of Tigrayans throughout Ethiopia: Thank you for forwarding the recent report by Human Rights Watch. We remain deeplyconcerned by the arbitrary arrest,...

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For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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Questions on the warning by Médecins Sans Frontières of a critical vaccine shortage in Darfur; prediction by UNICEF’s that 700,000 Sudanese children will suffer severe malnutrition; UNICEF’s report that the 2023–24 El Niño phenomenon has led to the closure of schools in South Sudan; and the effect of the prolonged heatwave and drought on eastern and southern Africa.

Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...

Despite the suppression of the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan the Government admits it “has not introduced any Global Human Rights sanctions against the Taliban since they took power in 2021.” Parliament needs to assert oversight of the random and opaque process of Magnitsky Sanctions.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3308): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government how many Taliban leaders they have...