To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report and recommendations of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sudan and South Sudan Genocide: All Over Again in Darfur?, published on 26 April; and whether they will publish a resp...
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To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made, in conjunction with (1) the World Food Programme and (2) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, of the number of people displaced or affected by the conflict in Sudan and likely to ...
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the numbers of refugees fleeing Sudan into neighbouring countries; and what steps they are taking to support them.
To ask His Majesty's Government what diplomatic steps they are taking to reduce the risk of regional contagion from the conflict in Sudan.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to communicate with British citizens in Sudan in the absence of internet and power for mobile phones.
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to applying universal jurisdiction as a means of bringing to justice those who have committed atrocity crimes, but have evaded prosecution in international courts or domestic courts in oth...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Johnson of Lainston on 19 April (HL Deb, cols 685–97) relating to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), what assessment they have made of China's ...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether their cost-benefit analyses of wind, solar, nuclear and tidal power take account of (1) the episodic nature of wind and solar power sources, and (2) the short service life of nuclear power facilities and their expen...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) proposals for constructing a tidal barrage between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare, and (2) the number of people living further up the estuary who would be protected from sea flooding.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made any study of the tidal power stations at (1) Shashan in China, and (2) Rance in France, including a comparison of the life span and cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations; whether they are awa...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the UK's tidal power prospects; and whether they have plans to meet Dr Robert Kirby, former Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Oceanography Centre, to discuss what contribution tidal ba...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Stewart of Dirleton on 25 April (HL6969), how many requests to prosecute cases of international crimes were received by the Attorney General in the last five years; and how many of tho...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the security implications of reports that the UNHCR and the World Food Programme removed UN insignia from UN boats that were used to transport Myanmar junta officials to Bangladesh as part ...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that organisations funded in part by the UK, such as UNHCR, are establishing and implementing a system of monitoring and, where necessary, protecting returning refugees to Myanmar; and w...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any forced repatriations of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, and whether that assessment takes account of any similar repatriation in 1978.
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to Filippo Grandi, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, concerning the UNHCR's position on the case for the Rohingya to return home.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are engaging the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan; and what representations they have made to the ICC since its decision to authorise its prosecu...
To ask His Majesty's Government how many projects benefitting woman and girls are funded by the UK in (1) Iran and (2) Afghanistan; and in each case what assistance they provide.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation of women and girls in (1) Iran and (2) Afghanistan; and in each case what steps they are taking to coordinate international action on the issue.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address gender apartheid in Afghanistan and Iran; and what consideration they are giving to recognising gender apartheid as a crime under international criminal law.