Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) We have spoken with Sri Lankan officials and with Geneva over the last week on these very issues. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) that has absolutely no basis in science, rides roughshod over the traditional practices of Sri Lankan - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) We also discussed, via my colleague Lord Ahmad, the importance of minority rights with the Sri Lankan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) the Muslim faith who are suffering persecution. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) In Sri Lanka, the Muslim community’s rights on burial practices have been suppressed. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) statement at the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) killing of an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan. - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) The UK also signed the UN Human Rights Council joint statement in September calling for the release of - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) the UK Government taking the stance that it is acceptable to commit acts of genocide on Muslim minorities - Speech Link
4: Simon Baynes (CON - Clwyd South) Will the Minister tell us how businesses and organisations in Clwyd South and the rest of the UK can - Speech Link
5: Nigel Adams (CON - Selby and Ainsty) Sri Lankan Foreign Minister on 5 November. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) and British universities.We use the British Council to promote UK culture around the world, and I encourage - Speech Link
2: Flick Drummond (CON - Meon Valley) I am a great believer in soft power organisations such as the British Council and the BBC World Service - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) Sri Lanka can live in peace and harmony.We must also mention the plight of the Rohingya, which I do - Speech Link
4: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) stakeholders will be involved in the review, including civil society organisations in the UK and those - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Jay of Ewelme (CB - Life peer) international organisations. - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) international organisations. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) international organisations. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) Britain has vibrant Sri Lankan communities which have made enormous contributions to this country. - Speech Link
5: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) life in Sri Lanka.We now have two new leaders: one here in the UK full of drive, determination and commitment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) Lankan Foreign Minister, to express my thanks for the work of the emergency services in Sri Lanka, as - Speech Link
2: Ranil Jayawardena (CON - North East Hampshire) It appears that ISIS has influenced and integrated into domestic organisations in Sri Lanka without which - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) In the practical sense of supporting the Sri Lankan diaspora in the UK, what communication has the Foreign - Speech Link
4: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) , Muslim, Christian or of any other faith or none. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) the British Council and his wife. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to tackle human rights abuses and to respect international calls - Speech Link
2: Alan Duncan (CON - Rutland and Melton) Gentleman appreciates, I do not personally cover Sri Lanka. - Speech Link
3: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) the BBC and the British Council make to it. - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) He is himself from a persecuted Muslim minority, so he understands these issues. - Speech Link
5: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) As a result, we continue to support the work of the UN Human Rights Council and the Office of the UN - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) The UK is one of the longest-standing members of the Human Rights Council, as the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) We have an active and thriving Iraq-UK business council. - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) There is widespread concern among the Muslim, Hindu, Tamil and Christian communities in Sri Lanka about - Speech Link
4: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) Just last week, I welcomed the Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) support for voluntary sector organisations. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) The first is the APPG for Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK—COSMOS—which seeks to combat - Speech Link
3: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) of our public realm and our public buildings in cities across the UK, many of which were built at the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) The use of sexual violence was an ugly characteristic of the Sri Lankan civil war under the stewardship - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (CON - Tonbridge and Malling) Does he agree that the work that is done by several organisations to preserve not just natural heritage - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) Council of Europe but Russia that needs to change its ways? - Speech Link
4: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) On 15 March, the UK proposed and co-ordinated a United Nations Security Council presidential statement - Speech Link
5: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) rights of the Muslim Uighur population. - Speech Link