Oral Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)Found: reports, after the report came out from the Uyghur region, that similar things have been happening in Tibet
Found: 1 Cross -Party Group on Tibet Tuesday 30 January 2024, 6:00pm Minute – Initial Meeting Present
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I bring the spotlight back to the situation in Tibet, where Chinese repression continues to be applied - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Gentleman in condemning China’s repression of Buddhists in Tibet. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) addressed many times, and I continue to hear from constituents with ongoing concerns about its treatment of Tibet - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Every day, people across China face violations of their human rights, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) national security law have led to widespread self-censorship by clergy in their sermons, just as it has in Tibet - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) on his work on Hong Kong but on his important work as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Tibet - Speech Link
Found: Commons Library debate briefings, The Uygur tribunal , January 2022 and Persecution of Buddhists in Tibet
Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the persecution of Buddhists in Tibet.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We consistently raise human rights issues at senior levels with the Chinese authorities. The Foreign Secretary did so in his introductory call with China's Foreign Minister on 5 December. We continue to raise Tibet in multilateral fora such as the Human Rights Council, in which last year we urged China to reverse its ongoing, serious, and systematic human rights violations in Tibet. Through these statements we have specifically highlighted UN reports that boarding schools are being used to assimilate Tibetan children into Han culture. In addition, we continue to coordinate with international partners to increase international attention on the human rights situation in Tibet, such as for the G7 Foreign Ministers' statement in November.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of continuing to send Foreign Aid to China.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In April 2021, the FCDO committed to cut Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded programmes in China by 95 per cent from the 2021-22 financial year. Since then, all new ODA programming in China supports activities that further our human rights objectives, for example on LGBTQ+ or disability rights. In addition to programme spend, FCDO ODA to China includes other types of spend counted as ODA, such as Chevening scholarships. The FCDO also spends non-ODA funding furthering our China human rights objectives, including research into Xinjiang and Tibet. The UK stopped direct aid to the Chinese Government in 2011.
Dec. 14 2023
Source Page: The Great Britain-China Centre annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023Found: Moreover , in political cases or in whole regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet, the trend is firmly t
Dec. 14 2023
Source Page: The Great Britain-China Centre annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023Found: Moreover , in political cases or in whole regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet, the trend is firmly t