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Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses: Magnitsky Sanctions - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) I beg to move,That this House is concerned that serious human rights abuses, including crimes against - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) corruption, continue to escalate in an increasingly unstable global environment; notes that global human - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) It is an astonishing abuse of human rights and the value of life. - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Sanctions must target the individuals responsible for human rights abuses, not just states. - Speech Link
5: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Secondly, let me turn to people smuggling and human trafficking. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Jury Trials - Wed 07 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) you know, we do not have minimum sentences in law.”That is demonstrably not true—think about drug trafficking - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) Who would have thought that a Government led by a human rights lawyer would be leading the charge to - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Simply put, it is safer to spread human fallibility across 12 people than to concentrate it in one. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Venezuela - Wed 07 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) My Lords, before Maduro was captured, it was about drug trafficking. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The United Kingdom’s support for international law and for human rights is unwavering and has not changed - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Venezuela - Tue 06 Jan 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None UN, with partners and directly, we have continued to call out the Maduro regime and its appalling human - Speech Link
2: None Her unwavering fight for democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Venezuela, and against oppression - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) something contrary to international law, which sets dangerous precedents and might likely perpetuate human - Speech Link
4: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Are we not one human race? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Venezuela - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) UN, with partners and directly, we have continued to call out the Maduro regime and its appalling human - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Venezuela is in a stronger position without Maduro leading it, especially given the horrendous human - Speech Link
3: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) Trump’s rationale around stopping drug trafficking rings hollow following his pardon for ex-Honduran - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Democracy and human rights are sacrosanct. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) They are looking to tighten up the modern slavery and trafficking regulations and make it more difficult - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) The idea is that the UK is a Great Britain: we will save you, especially women’s rights, human rights - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We would maintain our commitment to the European convention on human rights, which protects dignity, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Powers Committee, 11th Report from the Constitution Committee, 5th Report from the Joint Committee on Human - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) or wherever, because there is bound to be some immigration judge who will block you and cite bogus human - Speech Link
3: Lord McColl of Dulwich (Con - Life peer) real problem here.Another thing we have to bear in mind is that these people are often involved in human - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) Would it comply with the European Convention on Human Rights? Yes, I suggest it would. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Online Safety Act 2023: Repeal - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) Pornography is not a human right; people can choose not to use it.Pornography is not the only harm that - Speech Link
2: Tom Collins (Lab - Worcester) We cannot begin to comprehend the potential psychological harms that could come to human beings when - Speech Link
3: Tom Collins (Lab - Worcester) Then I realised that we have: bots on social media and fake accounts that we do not know are not human - Speech Link
4: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) trafficking; sexual exploitation; sexual images; intimate images of children; proceeds of crime; fraud - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Foreign Interference - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant documents: Seventh Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Transnational repression - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee Central) That is a key point.A cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights report describes China as a “flagrant - Speech Link
3: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) partnerships that helped UK immigration authorities to exchange data and work together to prevent people trafficking - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Committee, 33rd Report from the Delegated Powers Committee, 5th Report from the Joint Committee on Human - Speech Link
2: None Let me add a human context. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson (Con - Life peer) and suppliers of this base and debasing material have only one aim—to supply the worst elements of human - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We know that the average age of entry into trafficking for pornography in the US is just 12.8 years. - Speech Link