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	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report by Global Witness entitled, Standing Firm, published on 13 September 2023, what steps his Department is taking to help to protect people who focus on protecting (a) land and (b) the environment around the world.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	199449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>Human rights defenders (HRDs) and civil society organisations, including those working to protect land or the environment, are supported through the bilateral engagement of our global network of Embassies and High Commissions and, importantly, through multilateral organisations. In 2019, the Government published guidance entitled 'UK support for Human Rights Defenders' which sets out what we could and would do to support HRDs. The FCDO also monitors repression of HRDs and civil society in its annual Human Rights and Democracy Report, most recently published in July 2023.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 22/09/2023 14:22:24 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

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	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his policy is on the recognition by the UN of the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	179314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>The UK recognises the serious and unequivocal threat that climate change poses to our planet, and that it can undermine the enjoyment of human rights. However, any recognition of a new legal right must give due regard to the structure of international human rights law so as not to undermine the notion and value of human rights as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 21/04/2021 16:26:17 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook