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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Human Rights Day

"I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her timely intervention, and I could not agree with her more. This is something that I want to raise in a moment, particularly in the context of Afghanistan. I congratulate her on all the work she does in the all-party parliamentary …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Dec 2021
Human Rights Day

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I would like that. I am just about to come to that subject. Given that it is now four months since the Afghan resettlement scheme was announced and it still has not got off the ground, I would be grateful if the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Islamophobia Awareness Month

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that as well as accepting the passionate speech given by my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) we also need to challenge ourselves, whenever and wherever we experience such behaviour? There are some fantastic videos of people on tubes and trams challenging people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Human Rights: Kashmir

"I beg to move,

That this House notes with grave concern the escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers, following the revocation of Articles 370 and 35A from the Indian Constitution in August 2019; further notes the United Nations reports of 14 June 2018 and 8 July …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Human Rights: Kashmir

"We cannot say—this has been said on too many occasions—that this is just a bilateral issue. I will come to that point in a moment.

The last point that was raised is around the discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities. The UN report also noted that the number of armed …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Human Rights: Kashmir

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right that whenever and wherever there are human rights abuses—in whichever country, including our own—we should hold that country to account. That still needs to happen.

Accompanying the changes to India’s constitution, the Indian Government sent tens of thousands of Indian troops to the Kashmir …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Sep 2021
Human Rights: Kashmir

"Indeed. The APPG met Amnesty last autumn once we heard about that. If anybody is not familiar with it, please google what has happened; it is quite disturbing.

Amnesty International’s 2020 annual report cites how covid has been used by some countries to quell peaceful dissent, including in IAK and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint Committee

"Last month, when the House was recalled, I said that we needed to act. I am very grateful to the people who did act. I want to put on record my thanks to the noble Lord Ahmad in the other place and the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Apr 2021
Government Support for India

"As it is in the UK, the impact of covid in India is a human tragedy. I heard from a family friend in Delhi who says that people are terrified, frantically looking for beds and oxygen, with disgraceful profiteering ramping up prices and making support unaffordable for the poor. As …..."
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Written Question
Kashmir: Coronavirus
Wednesday 10th March 2021

Asked by: Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) speed of the covid-19 vaccination roll out in Pakistan to Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Answered by Nigel Adams

The UK continues to monitor the response to Covid-19 globally, including in Kashmir. The FCDO is working with global institutions, including the World Health Organisation, to ensure supplies are directed to those in greatest need. We are monitoring information on supplies in both India-administered and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.