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Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The question for our Government must be: have we been moved as much to do all we can? - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) I do not believe that that was in the interests of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and I do not think - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) under review as appropriate, but she will not be particularly surprised to hear me say that we do not - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Extremism Definition and Community Engagement - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Most extremist materials and activities are not illegal and do not meet the terrorism or the national - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) at our approach, the real sin would have been not to do so and to have stuck to a course that had led - Speech Link
3: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) We are not seeking to ban or restrict the operation of organisations in a free society; we are simply - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) It does not go far enough to tackle the real extremists, and it does not do enough to protect the non-extremists - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Security of Elected Representatives - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) What these thugs were actually asking us to do was to put our constituents second, and to bow to those - Speech Link
2: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) Although we absolutely respect the fundamental freedom to legitimate peaceful protest—it is a core democratic - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) I enjoy talking to my constituents, and I do not want to be asked to have a travel plan to go to my local - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) such as that we should restrict the right to protests. - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) We must protect MPs, but we must also ensure that the public’s right to peaceful protest is protected - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) It will not interfere with any person’s or private organisation’s rights to express a view or to protest - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) sought to ban peaceful protest? - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) rights of free speech and peaceful protest, provides extraordinary powers to Ministers and enforcement - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) authority, which do not have human rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) them with threats of continued attacks if they do not suppress the rights of camp members. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) , I do not know what will. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Iran to ensure that they adhere to human rights working conditions and do not discriminate against religious - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) But across the board, women and girls do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as men. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) rights of those who want to take peaceful action against violations of international law, and are in - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) levers available to them to protest against other international issues? - Speech Link
3: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) We do not think it is wrong for public bodies to take ethical investment and procurement decisions. - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Poor workers’ rights are not restricted to any one region of the world—we see them from China to Colombia - Speech Link
5: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) I do not think it is lost on any hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Persecution of Buddhists: Tibet - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Our job in this place is to do that, and we do so faithfully for all religious views as well.A delegation - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) I asked him about human rights, but he just said, “That’s nothing to do with me. - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) What more will our Government do to call out those concerns? - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) to the UK’s economy, but crucially must not leave our values at the door. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The challenge is to do so in a way that is consistent with our principles of democracy and human rights - Speech Link
2: Lord Strasburger (LD - Life peer) That is why we do not speak in public about troubling issues in our family or friendship circle such - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) There were at this protest of 100 people—all advertised and entirely peaceful with no plans for direct - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) So, it is important we do not create similar conditions under this proposal which will continue to restrict - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) do trying to protect women and girls.Women’s rights are the backbone of resilient, peaceful and democratic - Speech Link
2: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) protest and a commitment to peace. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It was on that—nothing to do with human rights law or the European Convention on Human Rights—that the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In my experience, when compared with a peaceful protest, the police need about five times as many officers - Speech Link
2: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) We often speak to our young people about their rights. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) repeal all the laws that this Government have enacted to restrict protest, strikes and voting. - Speech Link
4: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) a decision not to do harm. - Speech Link