November 25th, 2019
It has been five years since Nigeria’s Islamist Fulani herdsmen insurgency began. Thousands of civilians have been killed. Hundreds of Christian churches have been burned to rubble. Entire communities have been forced to abandon their homes and farmland....
November 5th, 2019
Question:
Baroness Cox Crossbench
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the British Armed Forces have, or are intended to have, any involvement in controlling the al-Omar oilfield in Syria.
Answer:
Baroness Goldie Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip), The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
The UK remains fully committed to the Global Coalition against Daesh and we must not lose sight of the threat that they still pose....
September 6th, 2017
The following transcript has been taken of the urgent question asked in the House of Commons on 5th September about the violence in Rakhine State, Burma.
For the televised recording of this debate, please see the
Parliament website. This debate can be found at 15:42:57....
March 1st, 2016
Yesterday, Baroness Cox asked the British Government for their position on military attacks on civilians in the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains, Sudan. You can read Lady Cox and other Peers’ questions and the Government’s replies below....
February 4th, 2016
Amendment 234A
Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool
234A: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—
“
Conditions for grant of asylum: cases of genocide
(1) A person seeking asylum in the United Kingdom who belongs to a national, ethnical, racial or religious group which is, in the place from which that person originates, subject to the conditions detailed in Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, shall be presumed to meet the conditions for asylum in the United Kingdom....
June 9th, 2015
Members of the Sudanese diaspora and others from across the UK took to the streets on Saturday 6 June to protest against the Government of Sudan’s attacks on civilians in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Darfur, and its repression and human rights abuses throughout Sudan....
May 29th, 2015
On the 28
th May, the House of Lords opened for the ‘Debate on the Humble Address – foreign affairs, European affairs, international development and defence’.
Baroness Cox used this opportunity to highlight to the House ongoing human rights abuse against ethnic minorities in Burma, particularly in the Shan and Kachin states and genocide in Sudan, focusing on the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan....
March 18th, 2015
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Burma has been increasing rapidly since the international community lifted sanctions, following limited democratic reforms in 2011. Large-scale developments in the form of mines, dams, roads and railways are springing up over the country as investors battle for a slice of Burma’s rich natural resources....
October 31st, 2014
Of the 30 million people around the world currently estimated to be living in slavery, the majority are in the private sector. Their situation is often hidden at the bottom of long, convoluted supply chains, allowing big businesses to abdicate responsibility for the exploi...
July 15th, 2014
On Monday 14th July, Baroness Cox raised a short question on Sudan for debate in the House of Lords. She asked Her Majesty’s Government
“what is their assessment of human rights in the Republic of Sudan”, then moved into a short speech in which she spoke with
“a heavy heart from first-hand evidence”. ...
