Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group statement, April 2024Found: nuclear forces, test sites, and the objective size of their arsenals, following the efforts of the United
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: We thank him for his dedicated service and renew our full support to the United Nations and the key role
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: We reiterate our deep concern over Iran’s human rights violations and abuses, especially against women
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to help support women and girls in Gaza.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
We trebled our aid commitment during Financial Year 23-24 to support partners including the British Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food Programme and the Egyptian Red Crescent. This includes £4.25 million to the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, to provide life-saving support to vulnerable women and girls in Gaza. This support is expected to reach about 111,500 women, around 1 in 5 of the adult women in Gaza. It will support up to 100 community midwives, the distribution of around 20,000 menstrual hygiene management kits and 45,000 clean delivery kits.
We have also provided targeted support for children through a £5.75 million contribution. This is supporting work to assist over 5,800 children with severe malnourishment and 853,000 children, adolescents and caregivers affected by the conflict, to receive emergency and child protection services, including mental health and psychosocial support.
Through our Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict programmes and dedicated funding totalling £60 million since 2012, we are leading work internationally to prevent conflict-related sexual violence and strengthen justice and support for all survivors. We stand ready to use our PSVI expertise and tools to ensure victims and survivors of CRSV, both Israeli and Palestinian, receive the holistic and survivor-centred support they need.
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumersFound: FinTech State of the Nation4The positive impact of technology on the financial services sector in the United
Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) The successful 2020 summit laid foundations for new partnerships between the UK and African nations, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) and China are fully engaged—then postponement, or, in effect, cancellation, does not really show the United - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) There is a lot of support particularly for women and girls. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) Can the First Minister confirm to the WASPI women—women against state pension inequality—who are watching - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) The Scottish Government has always supported—and always will support—the WASPI women. - Speech Link
3: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) Kingdom as a whole in private sector business activity, is third among the UK’s 12 regions and nations - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: 17 April 2024 Lord Ahmad Minister of State (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, United
Formal Minutes Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: Work of the Minister for Women and Equalities Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, Minister for Women and Equalities
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 March 2024 to 3 April 2024Found: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 259 358C.