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Parliamentary Research
UK response to international human rights abuses - CDP-2024-0011
Jan. 17 2024

Found: response to international human rights abuses 9 Commons Library Debate Pack , 4.3 China and the Uyghurs

Parliamentary Research
Future of human rights in Hong Kong - CDP-2024-0009
Jan. 17 2024

Found: Declaration, remove sanctions on UK parliamentarians, release the more than a million incarcerated Uyghurs

Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) It weakens human rights protections for persecuted groups around the world, from the Rohingya to the Uyghurs - Speech Link

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oral Evidence Jan. 09 2024

Inquiry: Work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: We have had the situation with the Uyghurs; we have had the situation with Hong Kong; we have had the

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to respond to the letter of 29 November to Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton from the Uyghur Tribunal regarding the treatment of the Uyghurs of Xinjiang in North-West China; and if so (1) when, and (2) whether they will publish this response.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Government intends to respond as per standard procedures and timelines.

Open Petition since 4th January 2024

Take concrete steps against Israeli settlements in Palestine - 208 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 233 - 3 added in the past 24hrs)

Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are widely considered to be illegal under international law.

Expansion of illegal settlements is Israeli government policy. Settler violence appears to be enabled by support and weaponry from Israeli authorities.

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Found: government has put in place measures to help ensure that no company profits from or is complicit in abuse of Uyghurs

Select Committee
First Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience

Report Dec. 15 2023

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Circualr Economy Hub ( MIN0039 ) 47 World Uyghur Congress; Anti-slavery International; Campaign for Uyghurs

Westminster Hall
Persecution of Buddhists: Tibet - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) with the warning:“As international attention increasingly focuses on the atrocity crimes against the Uyghurs - Speech Link

Parliamentary Research
Persecution of Buddhists in Tibet - CDP-2023-0228
Dec. 12 2023

Found: Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Taoism, groups with perceived foreign connections —such as Uyghurs

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (75th Anniversary) - Tue 12 Dec 2023

Mentions:
1: Findlay, Russell (Con - West Scotland) In China, the Chinese Communist Party commits genocide against the Uyghurs and other minority groups.In - Speech Link