Mentions:
1: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) register of trade union interests.Freedom of association is a basic human right. - Speech Link
2: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) the same people exploiting workers in the sweatshops of the far east and taking away their rights on - Speech Link
3: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) all manner of workers’ rights in the firefighting services. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) the western values of freedom and democracy. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) UK policies and relations in the area and protecting the rights of religious minorities? - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Our ambassador in Baghdad and our consul general in Irbil regularly meet Kurdish journalists, human rights - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) international human rights obligations.We need to note and acknowledge in this debate that we have seen - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Gulf, in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia, we reject the persecution and call them out. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) human rights clauses in trade agreements that the UK is negotiating. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: MENA0049 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa n/a Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Take the work of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the UK’s leading champion of democracy globally - Speech Link
2: Lord Herbert of South Downs (Con - Life peer) I think it is an excellent White Paper.The White Paper notes that progress on human rights around the - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) As the UK Minister for Human Rights, I can say that we have seen that taking place across the piece, - Speech Link
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: MENA0005 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa Labour Friends of Israel Written
Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
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 potential impact of human rights concerns in Bahrain on diplomatic relations between the UK and Bahrain.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Bahrain is an important partner to the UK and we have a close and long-standing relationship. We benefit from a genuine and open dialogue in which we work together on a range of issues of mutual benefit, including defence, security, trade and investment, and human rights. The FCDO remains committed to supporting Bahrain's human rights reforms, including through projects delivered via the Gulf Strategy Fund. The FCDO's most recent assessment of the human rights situation in Bahrain is in the annual 2021 FCDO Human Rights and Democracy Report, published in December 2022.
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) by individuals that blocked the first flight to Rwanda, including asylum and human rights claims. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) I mourn what this Government are doing to human rights, and the undermining of international law and - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) They are victims of war, human rights abuse, poverty and so much else. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) human rights obligations. - Speech Link
Found: This 20 FCDO, Human rights and democracy: The 2021 FCDO report , 9 December 2022 21 HC Deb
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: MENA0014 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa European Leadership Network UK (