Human Rights: Sanctions

(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the United States' Magnitsky Act, what progress the Government is making on introducing a UK autonomous global human rights sanctions regime.


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Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 15th June 2020

As the Foreign Secretary said in a Statement on Tuesday 2 June, we intend to bring the global human rights sanctions regulations before the House before the Summer recess. This legislation would allow us to impose sanctions in response to serious human rights violations or abuses around the world.

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