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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 37363, tabled on 18 May 2016

Question

Mr Gavin Shuker
Labour
Luton South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what resources his Department allocates to promoting and upholding freedom of religion or belief within the countries with which it works.

Answer

Mr David Lidington
Conservative
Aylesbury
Commons

Answered on

26 May 2016

Human Rights are part of the everyday work of all British diplomats. We work intensively on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) through the UN, the EU and the OSCE; and in individual countries, prioritising what works in local circumstances. In many parts of the world, we have supported projects through the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy. In the current financial year, we have allocated almost £900,000 to projects in this area.

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