Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Families

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.


Answered by
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Mark Field
This question was answered on 20th December 2017

Her Majesty's Government recognises the important role played by families within society. Accordingly, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has supported initiatives at the UN which positively seek to recognise this, such as resolutions at the UN General Assembly that celebrated and subsequently followed-up on the twentieth anniversary of the international year of the family. The government is committed to ensuring that individual freedom, rights and diversity are protected and promoted, including with respect to families, as per the relevant articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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