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Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Prison Population - Tue 27 Feb 2024

Mentions:
1: Constance, Angela (SNP - Almond Valley) It will not be a simple task, given the complexities in our justice system. - Speech Link
2: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) How are the new community custody units working to improve outcomes for women in custody? - Speech Link
3: Constance, Angela (SNP - Almond Valley) Both facilities represent a step change in the rehabilitation of women in custody. - Speech Link
4: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) while ensuring that we have policy and measures in our justice system that are fit for the 2020s and - Speech Link
5: Regan, Ash (Alba - Edinburgh Eastern) When will an impact analysis be done on the strategy for women in custody? - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
LGBT+ History Month - CDP-2024-0044
Feb. 26 2024

Found: to “Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years”.8 1885: The Criminal Law Amendment


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 22 2024

Source Page: Zambia: information for victims of rape and sexual assault
Document: Gender-Based Violence National Framework (PDF)

Found: and accessing SGBV data due to inadequate indicators in the Health Management Information System (HMIS


Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
Children and Families Directorate

Feb. 22 2024

Source Page: Statutory guidance on Part 2 of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024
Document: Statutory guidance on Part 2 of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (PDF)

Found: Statutory guidance on Part 2 of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 21 2024

Source Page: Russia’s war has had devastating impacts on the environment: UK statement to the OSCE
Document: Russia’s war has had devastating impacts on the environment: UK statement to the OSCE (webpage)

Found: Russia’s war has had devastating impacts on the environment: UK statement to the OSCE


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None and women and imposes a sentence of up to two years imprisonment, and Tanzania’s penal code criminalises - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) , women, children, and the disabled. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The effective system has to be in place, because that is what the treaty says; the effective system is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Putin’s Russia imprisoned him on fabricated charges, poisoned him and sent him to an Arctic penal colony - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) He is yet another victim of the oppressive system that President Putin has built. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) In a way, these murders are themselves signs of the weakness and the fragile nature of the regime in - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) for the most basic fundamental freedoms that we now enjoy, including the right of women to vote, which - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief in Nigeria - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I remember being outraged when I first heard about Boko Haram’s actions against women and children and - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) given that the country’s quota system for state revenue distribution privileges the comparatively more - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) sharia penal codes are constitutional. - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) of the young women who are being worked with in order to engage with local communities—but there is - Speech Link
5: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) have also targeted Christians, including through the large-scale abduction of women and children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) , to protect the weak, the children and the vulnerable young women, and to smash the criminal gangs whose - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) the system of checks and balances in the system, quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It also needs to be a system rooted in a system of international law and respect—a system our great country - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are grateful to the Government of Rwanda for hosting these men, women and children”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) The penal code criminalises same-sex sexual activity and individuals found guilty of engaging in such - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Justice Directorate

Jan. 26 2024

Source Page: National Care Service: Justice Social Work research
Document: Literature Review: JSW and the NCS (webpage)

Found: service providers and the public; while the latter is pertinent to public confidence in the system,