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Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) Friend agree that it is incumbent on both the Indian Government and the Pakistani Government to ensure - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) impunity in many areas, and continues to kill, abduct or displace thousands of Christians and other minorities - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghanistan: UK Government Policy - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) I absolutely am concerned about the attitude of Pakistan and about the potential for Pakistani nuclear - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Minister provide us with an update on the prospects for people who are stuck in Pakistan and whom the Pakistani - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) legitimising and assisting financially a brutal, theocratic regime that oppresses women, religious and ethnic minorities - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) These include preserving the rights of women and minorities and ensuring that Afghanistan will no longer - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We regularly raise our concerns, including individual cases, at a senior level with the Pakistani authorities - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We continue to press these individual cases with the Pakistani Government. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) child and forced marriage and gender-based violence, discrimination and intolerance, especially against minorities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tackling Islamophobia - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) contacted me to share their anger and concern, which I shared, about the impact of the slurs against Pakistani - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) learned Member for Fareham (Suella Braverman), falsely said that grooming gangs were “almost all British-Pakistani - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) column.Since then, we have continued to hear language in the House that risks endangering ethnic and religious minorities - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) May I urge the Government to resolve that housing issue urgently, given the Pakistani authorities’ threat - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) his Pakistan counterpart about deeply worrying human rights abuses committed against Hindus and other minorities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Minoritised Women: Pay Inequality - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) This is particularly so for women of Pakistani heritage. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) I will home in on Pakistani women in particular, who seem to have the worst effects of this—there are - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hussein-Ece (LDEM - Life peer) Given that over double the proportion of women from black and other ethnic minorities reported that they - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ahmadi Muslims: Pakistan - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) I have often spoken up about the human rights of minorities, and freedom of religious belief is something - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) of Ahmadis in Pakistan is also unique, as the group is excluded from the protections other religious minorities - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) country’s blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal disputes and to target religious minorities - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) of religion, we have repeatedly raised concerns about blasphemy laws and the worrying situation for minorities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Overcrowding - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (LAB - Life peer) What do they intend to do to specifically rectify the problem for ethnic minorities? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) The study puts Bangladeshi and Pakistani households at the centre of a piece of research, including their - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Myanmar - Wed 19 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Imran Hussain (LAB - Bradford East) Myanmar, the Government and authorities are guilty of persecuting and oppressing countless different minorities - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) including banning British firms from supplying aviation fuel to Burma, sanctioning the Russian, Chinese, Pakistani - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Religious minorities often find that human rights abuses fall significantly more upon them than upon - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That must be addressed.Furthermore, as is often the case, women from religious minorities face double - Speech Link
5: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Alongside condemning the Tatmadaw’s treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, I call on the Minister - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sport, Health and Well-being National Plan (NPSRC Report) - Thu 09 Feb 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) At grass-roots level, women, disabled people, the elderly, ethnic minorities, those with long-term health - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) We have a pathway in Northamptonshire to the mainly Pakistani ethnic community in Luton. - Speech Link