Following an urgent question regarding the US Supreme Court decision to allow states to decide of the legality of abortions, foreign minister Amanda Milling made a statement on the matter. Milling told MPs that “the UK is proud to defend and promote universal and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights”. But Milling didn’t slam…
Former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, has blasted the “legal farce” of the ECHR following an eleventh hour intervention by human rights judges to ground the UK government’s initial deportation flight to Rwanda. Referring to the situation as “ridiculous”, the former work and pensions secretary told LBC Radio: “This has turned into a…
The charity Open Doors heard from an Afghan woman with the given name of Zabi. Her father was taken, tortured and executed. A few months later, her brother was also taken and never seen or heard from again. Zabi and her mother fled to another country after the Taliban takeover and they survive amidst total uncertainty…
Now the Olympic flame has been lit in the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, for the next two weeks our TV screens will be filled with the opulent stadiums and arenas, and the extravagant ceremonies of the 2022 Winter Olympics. It will be a very different version of China to the one experienced by all…
Over the past 30 years, China’s rapid economic development has catapulted it to the forefront of world politics, becoming a major player to rival the United States. But recent controversy over Taiwan and the Uyghur people has raised a spotlight on the communist country, and led to a backlash from many Western nations. Talking…
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Labour’s shadow justice secretary Steve Reed has labelled the government’s proposed changes to the Human Rights Act as ‘a dead cat distraction’. Speaking to the Commons, Reed said: “It’s a dead cat distraction tactic by a government that doesn’t know how to fix the criminal justice system that they’ve broken and is desperate to divert…
Government proposals to forcibly push back people attempting to cross the Channel should be scrapped if the Government cannot show they are compatible with the UK’s human rights obligations, a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights has found. Last week 27 people died trying to cross the Channel into England. Over 26,000 people have made the perilous journey to the UK…
Members of the House of Lords questioned the government’s response to Iran’s continued detention of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe today. The urgent question was proposed by Labour peer Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, who asked: “Can the minister use his undoubted influence with the prime minister to get him to make it his now, his top priority…
MPs today in the House of Commons called on the British government to “use its weight” to seek a solution over the Kashmir conflict. Robbie Moore, the Conservative MP for Keighley, said: “As elected politicians here in the United Kingdom, we cannot decide on domestic policy within another country, but we can use our influence…
