Calls in Parliament for the new Trade Bill to impose a human rights threshold to protect those – like Uighurs – subjected to human rights violations. And a call to take national resilience and over dependence on trade with regimes controlled by violators.

Calls in Parliament for the new Trade Bill to impose a human rights threshold to protect those – like Uighurs – subjected to human rights violations. And a call to take national resilience and over dependence on trade with regimes controlled by violators.

Calls in Parliament for the new Trade Bill to impose a human rights threshold to protect those - like Uighurs - subjected to human rights violations. And a call to take national resilience and over dependence on trade with regimes controlled by violators. 2.55 pm...

Parliament hears All-Party calls for the Government to take action on the harvesting of human organs and human tissue from Falun Gong practitioners, Uighur Muslims and other religious minorities, and political dissident. Details of an amendment tabled to the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill

Parliament hears All-Party calls for the Government to take action on the harvesting of human organs and human tissue from Falun Gong practitioners, Uighur Muslims and other religious minorities, and political dissident. An amendment has today been tabled to the...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published a new high-level Briefing Paper on the responsibility of governments under international law in relation to the widely reported severe ill-treatment, repression and abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by China. The report has been endorsed by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Lord Alton of Liverpool and has been written by leading human rights barristers in England and Wales who are members of BHRC.

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published a new high-level Briefing Paper on the responsibility of governments under international law in relation to the widely reported severe ill-treatment, repression and abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by China. The report has been endorsed by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Lord Alton of Liverpool and has been written by leading human rights barristers in England and Wales who are members of BHRC.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/22/world-is-legally-obliged-to-pressure-china-on-uighurs-leading-lawyers-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published a new high-level Briefing Paper on the responsibility...

Telecommunications Legislation: Human Rights of Uighurs – Questions in the House as Uighurs are shackled and as the Board of Deputies of British Jews says: “The World will neither forgive nor forget a genocide against the Uighur people” and the Foreign Secretary says that this is,  “reminiscent of something not seen for a long time.” And Minister replies on the impact of China’s proposed draft data security law on UK companies including the potential requirement to disclose information to the government of China about network security in their operations in other countries

Telecommunications Legislation: Human Rights of Uighurs – Questions in the House as Uighurs are shackled and as the Board of Deputies of British Jews says: “The World will neither forgive nor forget a genocide against the Uighur people” and the Foreign Secretary says that this is,  “reminiscent of something not seen for a long time.” And Minister replies on the impact of China’s proposed draft data security law on UK companies including the potential requirement to disclose information to the government of China about network security in their operations in other countries

Telecommunications Legislation: Human Rights of Uighurs - Questions in the House as Uighurs are shackled and as the Board of Deputies of British Jews says: “The World will neither forgive nor...

Powerful letter from Marie van der Zyl President The Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Chinese Ambassador in London about the Uighurs: “Nobody could watch the segment of the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on which you appeared yesterday and fail to notice the similarities between what is alleged to be happening in the People’s Republic of China today and what happened in Nazi Germany 75 years ago”

Powerful letter from Marie van der Zyl President The Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Chinese Ambassador in London about the Uighurs: “Nobody could watch the segment of the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on which you appeared yesterday and fail to notice the similarities between what is alleged to be happening in the People’s Republic of China today and what happened in Nazi Germany 75 years ago”

Powerful letter from Marie van der Zyl President The Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Chinese Ambassador in London about the Uighurs: “Nobody could watch the segment of the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on which you appeared yesterday and fail to notice the...

Government fails to answer when asked what assessment they have made of reports that the decline in birth-rates among the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s ethnic minority communities may indicate the promotion of a coercive birth-prevention strategy targeted at ethnoreligious minority groups; and whether any such targeted coercive policy would require the UK Government to consider their obligations, as a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Crime of Genocide, to prevent, protect, and hold to account perpetrators.

Government fails to answer when asked what assessment they have made of reports that the decline in birth-rates among the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s ethnic minority communities may indicate the promotion of a coercive birth-prevention strategy targeted at ethnoreligious minority groups; and whether any such targeted coercive policy would require the UK Government to consider their obligations, as a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Crime of Genocide, to prevent, protect, and hold to account perpetrators.

Government fails to answer when asked what assessment they have made of reports that the decline in birth-rates among the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s ethnic minority communities may indicate the promotion of a coercive birth-prevention strategy targeted at...

UK Government again calls on China to allow the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights unfettered access to Xinjiang and says “we are seriously concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang including the extra-judicial detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in “political re-education camps”, systematic restrictions on Uyghur culture and the practice of Islam, and extensive and invasive surveillance targeting minorities”

UK Government again calls on China to allow the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights unfettered access to Xinjiang and says “we are seriously concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang including the extra-judicial detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in “political re-education camps”, systematic restrictions on Uyghur culture and the practice of Islam, and extensive and invasive surveillance targeting minorities”

  Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL6104): Question Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports of forced sterilisation, mass...

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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...

Hikvision and Surveillance Cameras – “a timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment supplied by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of China from sensitive sites..is due to be published by 26 April….We encourage all organisations to follow NCSC supply chain security guidance when selecting a technology supplier.”

Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the Cabinet Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3549): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost to date of the removal of Hikvision cameras from...