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1082592

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date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department maintains an ongoing dialogue with the Vice-President of Zimbabwe; and what representations his Department has made to the Vice-President of Zimbabwe on the January 2019 violence in that country.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK meets regularly with the full range of stakeholders in Zimbabwe from across the political spectrum including members of the ruling and opposition parties, judiciary and civil society. British Embassy officials last met with Vice President Chiwenga in September 2018.</p><p>We have made our views clear to the Government of Zimbabwe following the January 2019 violence. Her Majesty's Ambassador to Zimbabwe last met Foreign Minister Moyo on 20 February and I spoke to him on 30 January. I reinforced our calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to investigate all allegations of human rights violations and urged them to follow the due process of law for all those arrested in connection to January's protests.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 13/03/2019 17:11:44 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082595

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Diplomatic Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, where the funding will come from for the proposed expansion of the UK’s diplomatic network; over what period that expansion will take place; and whether that funding will be taken from elsewhere in his departmental budget.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The funding for the expansion of the diplomatic network is coming from £90 million of additional resource over two years agreed by the Treasury to support the Government’s Global Britain ambitions. The expansion is planned to cover a period beginning in 2018 and ending in 2020. This funding will not be taken from elsewhere in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s budget. Expansion beyond March 2020 is subject to the forthcoming spending review.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/03/2019 11:33:13 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082596

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Equal Rights Coalition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to expand the membership of the Equal Rights Coalition among (a) African, (b) Asian and (c) other countries during the Government’s term as co-chair of that coalition in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>​The Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) was set up to develop the ways in which governments could coordinate their diplomatic efforts, share information, and work together at the international level to achieve LGBT equality. As ERC co-chair we are keen to expand the current 40-strong membership to include any country seeking to work with existing ERC members to promote and protect the human rights of LGBT people globally.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 14/03/2019 11:28:50 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082597

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Oyub Titiev
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Russian counterpart on the continued detention of Oyub Titiev.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>We remain concerned by the continued detention of Oyub Titiev, Head of the Chechnya division of Non-Governmental organisation Memorial. The UK most recently raised this issue in January 2019, when we joined other EU member states in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in calling for Mr Titiev’s immediate release. In November 2018, the UK was one of 16 participating States to invoke the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to investigate human rights abuses in Chechnya. We continue to prioritise the promotion and protection of human rights in Russia, and will continue to make our concerns clear in bilateral interactions at all levels, where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/03/2019 11:39:39 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082598

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Brazil: State Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will guarantee that President Bolsonaro of Brazil will not be accorded the honour of a state visit to the UK during his term in office because of his record of hate speech against members of the LGBT community.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans for a State Visit by President Bolsonaro. The UK is a strong champion of LGBT rights and our view on LGBT phobia is clear. We continue to work closely with Brazil, making clear where we disagree.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/03/2019 11:56:58 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082599

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Cuba: Equal Rights Coalition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he will formally invite Cuba to join the Equal Rights Coalition during the Government’s term as co-chair of the coalition, in light of the recent progress the Cuban Government has made on LGBT rights.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK is looking forward to taking over as co-chair of the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) in June, partnering with Argentina, and to helping shape the ERC's work to advance global LGBT equality. We will celebrate advancements in the rights of LGBT people around the world, including in Cuba where the newly adopted constitution includes protection against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, and which allows for a future debate and potentially legislation legalising same sex marriage. We are committed to the expansion of the current 40 strong ERC membership and will consider plans for new members when we take over as co-chair from Canada.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/03/2019 11:58:51 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082600

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Indigenous Peoples
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his international counterparts for the rights of indigenous peoples to be embedded into the proposed International Treaty on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>​I have not made any such representations. The British Government regards the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) as the authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse human rights impacts with business. The United Kingdom has a strong legal and policy framework to promote and protect human rights for all individuals, including indigenous people. We continue to work overseas and through international institutions such as the United Nations to improve the situation of those facing discrimination. In 2007, the UK supported the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and in May 2017 the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council adopted conclusions on indigenous peoples.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 14/03/2019 11:33:50 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082601

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Uyghurs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the continued mass detention and mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in western China.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports that over one million Uyghur Muslims have been held in re-education camps, and reports of widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities.</p><p>Ministers and senior officials have been raising our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities for some time, and will continue to do so. Lord Ahmad stressed the UK’s concerns about Xinjiang during his address at the 40<sup>th</sup> session of the UN Human Rights Council in February 2019. I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p><p>During China’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on 6 November 2018, the UK made a statement which described our concern about the treatment of ethnic minorities in China, including Uyghurs. We issued a specific recommendation, calling on China to not only implement the recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Xinjiang, but also to allow the UN to monitor the implementation.</p><p>Following the Universal Periodic Review, Lord Ahmad issued a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-periodic-review-31st-session-minister-for-human-rights-statement" target="_blank">statement</a> where he said: “I am very concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the re-education camps and the widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities, particularly the Uyghurs. The UK and many of our international partners have made clear during China’s UPR that this is a priority issue. We recommended that China should implement CERD recommendations in Xinjiang and allow the UN to monitor implementation.”</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 14/03/2019 11:39:31 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082602

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Sayed Alwadaei
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Bahraini counterpart on the recent upholding of the convictions against relatives of the wife of Mr Sayed Alwadaei, the Director of Advocacy of the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of and continue to monitor the cases raised in your question. Officials from our Embassy in Manama attended the court session for the individuals in question. We have raised these cases at a senior level with the Government of Bahrain.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/03/2019 17:00:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1082603

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nabeel Rajab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Bahraini counterpart on the case of the human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	229117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>As the statement I released on 21 February made clear, we are concerned by the five year sentence handed to Mr Rajab. We have raised the case at the highest levels with the Government of Bahrain. We continue to encourage the Government of Bahrain to protect freedom of expression for all of its citizens, in line with its international obligations.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/03/2019 17:01:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry