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answering dept id | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
answering dept short name | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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hansard heading | Human Rights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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question text | To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Global Britain: Human Rights and the Rule of Law (HC 874), published on 11 September 2018, in particular its recommendation that “repercussions, including the suspension of support” should be introduced for those states that do not make sufficient progress, or regress, in areas of rule of law and democracy; and (2) the report by the Freedom House Freedom in the World 2019: Bahrain which stated that Bahrain has “become one of the Middle East’s most repressive’ states”; and what steps, if any, they have taken in response to those reports' findings and recommendations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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hansard heading | Integrated Activity Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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question text | To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 29 January (HC 9712), what assessment was made before their decision to extend the Integrated Activity Fund beyond the initial four-year period; and what plans they have to publish that assessment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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hansard heading | Bahrain: Religious Freedom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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question text | To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief on 11 September 2019 that “reform is taking place” in Bahrain, what assessment they have made of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s Annual Report 2020: Bahrain Chapter, published in April, which states that Bahrain “continued its ongoing and systematic discrimination against some Shi’a Muslims on the basis of their religious identity” in 2019, noting in particular the mistreatment of Shi’a prisoners, the harassment of Shi’a Imams and jailed Shi’a activists who advocate for greater freedom of religion in Bahrain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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hansard heading | Bahrain: Press Freedom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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question text | To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the publication of the Reporters Without Borders 2020 World Press Freedom Index which saw Bahrain drop to 169 out of 180 countries, a fall of two places since last year and five places since 2017, what assessment they have made of the state of press freedom in Bahrain; and whether any such assessment will impact their provision of technical assistance to that country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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