Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has previously established a country-specific cell similar to the International Humanitarian Law Compliance Assessment Process Cell.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
The International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Cell's approach to assessment of IHL compliance by Israel is informed by a methodology adopted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following a request by the Campaign Against Arms Trade in 2017 for a judicial review of export licensing decisions for Saudi Arabia during the conflict in Yemen.
I refer the honourable member for Hodge Hill to the then Secretary of State for International Trade's statement of 7 July 2020 following the High Court judgment on military export licences to Saudi Arabia [Volume 678:Column 32-34WS].
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: that would be now to unravel in order to put in a different governance structure, is there a risk of Yemen
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: that would be now to unravel in order to put in a different governance structure, is there a risk of Yemen
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) Most recently, he will be aware, each round of UK air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen has been - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) October, they had started negotiating with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a ceasefire and a solution to Yemen - Speech Link
Found: Yemen Advance peace and alleviate the humanitarian crisis.Spent £83 million in 2022-23 on aid programmes
Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Just a few weeks ago, we raised the plight of the Baha’i community in Yemen and Iran, the Ahmadi Muslims - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) the 19th century and can send gunboats up the Yangtze and not have them sunk, and that the natives in Yemen - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The regime continues to intervene in Yemen, one of the world’s worst human rights crises, and was responsible - Speech Link
Mar. 19 2024
Source Page: British Council 2022-23 Annual report and accounts. 141p.Found: protection of an endangered dialect of Swahili in Kenya and the rehabilitation of a 19th-century palace in Yemen
Found: y) Sri Lanka; (z) Sudan; (za) Syria; (zb) Turkmenistan; (zc) Uzbekistan; (zd) Venezuela; (ze) Yemen