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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Myanmar: Democracy
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government when they last raised the treatment of pro-democracy advocates in Burma at the United Nations, and when they intend to do so again; and what discussions they have had with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ...

Asked 19 December 2023
Answered 8 January 2024
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL1314
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Myanmar: Rohingya
Baroness Goudie
Labour, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 11 December, whether they plan to call a meeting at the UN Security Council to discuss Myanmar’s non-implementation of the provisional measures set out by the Int...

Asked 14 December 2023
Answered 3 January 2024
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL1209
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sudan: Genocide
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the speech by the then Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid, on Holocaust Memorial Day, 23 January 2017, whether they still recognise the atrocities in Darfur in 2003 as ...

Asked 14 December 2023
Answered 2 January 2024
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL1199
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sudan: Genocide
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have ever recognised the 2003 killings of Darfuri people in Sudan as genocide, and if so, why it is not among the five genocides now officially recognised.

Asked 13 December 2023
Answered 2 January 2024
By Lord Benyon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL1131
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Holodomor
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Labour, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to recognise the Holodomor in 1932–33 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Asked 13 December 2023
Answered 29 December 2023
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL1145
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Genocide Convention
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 3317 on Gaza: Genocide, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the finding of the ...

Asked 13 December 2023
Answered 22 December 2023
By Mr Andrew Mitchell (Conservative, Sutton Coldfield)
6886
Answered
Commons
Question for Home Office
Extradition: Rwanda
Viscount Waverley
Crossbench, Excepted Hereditary

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the government of Rwanda has requested the extradition of individuals associated with genocide-related activities; if so, whether those individuals have been extradited; and, if not, why.

Asked 30 November 2023
Answered 14 December 2023
By Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative, Life peer)
HL787
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Greece: Turkey
Lord Stone of Blackheath
Non-affiliated, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for recognising the actions by the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes against Pontic Greeks between 1914 and 1923 as a genocide.

Asked 29 November 2023
Answered 13 December 2023
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL734
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Myanmar: Rohingya
Baroness Goudie
Labour, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Myanmar military is implementing the provisional measures set out by the International Court of Justice in The Gambia v. Myanmar case, in which they recently filed their declara...

Asked 27 November 2023
Answered 11 December 2023
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL600
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Genocide Convention
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the Government has sought legal advice on its responsibilities under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Asked 29 November 2023
Answered 8 December 2023
By Mr Andrew Mitchell (Conservative, Sutton Coldfield)
4515
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Occupied Territories: International Courts
Mr David Jones
Conservative, Clwyd West

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what criteria he applies when deciding whether to file an amicus brief to international court proceedings; what amicus briefs the Government has submitted to international courts ...

Asked 28 November 2023
Answered 4 December 2023
By David Rutley (Conservative, Macclesfield)
4101
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Democratic Republic of Congo: Humanitarian Aid
Andrew Rosindell
Conservative, Romford

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Democratic Republic of Congo: Humanitarian Response Plan 20...

Asked 24 November 2023
Answered 1 December 2023
By Mr Andrew Mitchell (Conservative, Sutton Coldfield)
3605
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestinians
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the statement by the UN entitled Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people, published on 16 November 20...

Asked 21 November 2023
Answered 29 November 2023
By David Rutley (Conservative, Macclesfield)
2952
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestinians
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the statement by the UN entitled Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people, published on 16 November 20...

Asked 21 November 2023
Answered 29 November 2023
By David Rutley (Conservative, Macclesfield)
2951
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Armed Conflict
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the statement by the UN entitled Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people, published on 16 November 20...

Asked 20 November 2023
Answered 28 November 2023
By David Rutley (Conservative, Macclesfield)
2677
Answered
Commons
Question for Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Refugees
Lord Stone of Blackheath
Non-affiliated, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are planning to provide mental health support to the descendants of Pontian refugees who suffered a genocide between 1914 and 1923, as recognised by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Asked 13 November 2023
Answered 28 November 2023
By Lord Markham (Conservative, Life peer)
HL245
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Genocide Convention
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool, Walton

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the International Commission of Jurists recent statement entitled, Gaza/Palestine: State...

Asked 22 November 2023
Answered 27 November 2023
By Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative, Berwick-upon-Tweed)
3317
Named day
Answered
Commons
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Rohingya: Genocide
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
Bishops, Bishops

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to request a meeting of the UN Security Council to address the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya.

Asked 21 November 2023
Answered 27 November 2023
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL484
Answered
Lords
Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tigray: Genocide
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench, Life peer

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to implement their duty to punish the crime of genocide in Tigray, as required by Article I of the Genocide Convention, including the prosecution of the crime under section 51 of the Internationa...

Asked 8 November 2023
Answered 23 November 2023
By Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative, Life peer)
HL85
Answered
Lords
Question for Home Office
British Nationality: Hamas
Paul Girvan
Democratic Unionist Party, South Antrim

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has taken recent steps to withdraw British citizenship from people who are members of Hamas.

Asked 13 November 2023
Answered 21 November 2023
By Robert Jenrick (Conservative, Newark)
1676
Answered
Commons
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