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Tuesday 5th December 2023 2:30 p.m. Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall Subject: Sri Lankan Tamils and human rights View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Sri Lanka: Human Rights
24 speeches (8,697 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Tens of thousands of Tamils were killed in the final months, with accusations pointing to intentional - Link to Speech 2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) of many thousands of Tamils to India between the 1960s and 1980s. - Link to Speech 3: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) I represent many Tamils in my Carshalton and Wallington constituency. - Link to Speech |
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Human Rights in Hong Kong
42 speeches (13,561 words) Tuesday 23rd January 2024 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) For example, some 25 or 30 years ago, Tamils made their home in south-west London because of the civil - Link to Speech |
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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
175 speeches (35,589 words) Committee of the whole House Day 1 Tuesday 16th January 2024 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Libya, Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon, Tamils - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
172 speeches (8,926 words) Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) But all these years on, they are still at large, unlike the nearly 18,000 Tamils who went missing and - Link to Speech 2: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) As chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Tamils, may I ask my right hon. - Link to Speech 3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Will the Minister outline what steps she is taking to support the Tamils’ calls for justice, including - Link to Speech |
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Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights
52 speeches (13,380 words) Tuesday 5th December 2023 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) I am also grateful to the British Tamils Forum, which plays a key role in supporting the APPG and has - Link to Speech 2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Ultimately, there must be a right to self-determination for the Tamils. - Link to Speech 3: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) The first step must be to end all discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka. - Link to Speech 4: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) Let us show Sri Lankans and Tamils something different. - Link to Speech |
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Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
87 speeches (25,436 words) Report stage Wednesday 25th October 2023 - Commons Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) I have campaigned with others across the House with regard to Sri Lanka and the persecution of the Tamils - Link to Speech |
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Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
186 speeches (39,753 words) 2nd reading Monday 3rd July 2023 - Commons Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) For the Rohingya in Myanmar, for the Tamils in Sri Lanka and for countless others, the concern is that - Link to Speech 2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) inside.I have campaigned against the Sri Lankan Administration owing to their genocidal attack on the Tamils - Link to Speech |
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Thursday 14th March 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes of Joint Committee on Human Rights Session 22 - 23 Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: Affairs; Policing; Qatar; Rwanda & Gt Lakes; Save the Pub; Sri Lanka; Street Children; Swimming; Taiwan; Tamils |
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Sri Lanka: Drinking Water
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney) Monday 8th January 2024 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that Tamils in northern Sri Lanka have access to clean drinking water. Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) We are aware of the challenges Sri Lanka faces around water management and quality, particularly by communities in the Northern Province. The British High Commission Colombo regularly meets a range of stakeholders in the Northern Province to hear their experiences and issues. A number of public bodies in Sri Lanka, including the National Water Supply and Drainage Board, have conducted tests into the water quality, after concerns were raised by local communities. The UK Government supports the International Water Management Institute, an international water management research organisation, to provide solutions to increasing water scarcity in Puttalam and Kilinochchi. |
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Sri Lanka: Tamils
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford) Wednesday 25th October 2023 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the purported persecution of the Tamil population in northern Sri Lanka. Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) Sri Lanka is a UK human rights priority country. The UK has led, with the Core Group on Sri Lanka, international efforts to promote human rights for all communities, including through UNHRC resolution 51/1. We recommended addressing issues around the expropriation of land in the North and East during Sri Lanka's Universal Periodic Review. The UK encourages establishment of a meaningful Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Whilst visiting Sri Lanka from 10-13 October I raised issues over progress on human rights and accountability mechanisms with the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL). We welcome the GoSL commitment to address longstanding grievances of minority communities through the implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. |
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Human rights in Sri Lanka - CDP-2024-0066
Mar. 19 2024 Found: The Tamil Tigers were an armed sep aratist group fighting for an independent homeland for Tamils in |
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Sri Lankan Tamils and human rights - CDP-2023-0217
Dec. 01 2023 Found: Sri Lankan Tamils and human rights |
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Tuesday 16th January 14 signatures (Most recent: 11 Mar 2024) Tabled by: Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham) That this House expresses concern regarding water quality in northern Sri Lanka; is concerned by reports stating that the Sri Lankan Government refused to allow independent assessments of water quality in the region; notes that the consumption or use of water contaminated by waste oil has been linked to many … |
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Thursday 13th July 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Source Page: Human Rights and Democracy Report 2022 Document: Human Rights and Democracy: the 2022 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office report (PDF) Found: disrupt Tamil commemorative events for victims of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, and arbitrarily accused Tamils |