Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that the second phase of the investigations by the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia has full (a) access to all parties in Ethiopia and (b) funding.

The UK is strongly supporting all efforts to ensure accountability for violations and abuses, including by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE). The UK co-sponsored the December 2021 resolution at the Human Rights Council which established the Commission. We also co-sponsored the October 2022 resolution at the Human Rights Council to extend the Commission's mandate. We have urged all parties to cooperate with the Commission's investigation. The former Minister for Development raised this on several occasions with the Ethiopian Ambassador.