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House of Commons. Second Special Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee
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Foreign Affairs Committee. Second Special Report. Government Observations on the First Report from the Committee, Session 1989-90 (UNESCO). Report, Together with the Proceedings of the Committee
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Foreign Affairs Select Committee: Premature Disclosure of First and Third Reports of Session 1998/99. (HC 100, HC 86). Foreign Affairs Select Committee Second Special Report with Proceedings
Author: Foreign Affairs Select Committee: Correspondence with the Foreign Secretary in Relation to the Sierra Leone Report (HC 116). Foreign Affairs Select Committee Second Special Report with Proceedings, Evidence and Appendices
Author: House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee: the FCO's Human Rights Work in 2012 - HC 267
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215062703
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The FCO was timid and inconsistent in the discussions which led to the decision to award to Sri Lanka the right to host the 2013 CHOGM. It should have taken a more robust approach since, in the light of continuing human rights abuses in the country. In 2009 the FCO objected to Sri Lanka hosting the 2011 CHOGM but did not obstruct a proposal that it might do so in 2013, nor did it insist that Sri Lanka's right to host in 2013 should be conditional on improvements in human rights. The Committee took evidence from the BBC World Service on jamming and denial of access to its broadcast and internet services, particularly in Iran and China. The Committee calls on the BBC to recognise in future funding plans the need to provide the resources necessary to afford protection. All providers of satellite services have a commercial interest in defeating jamming. The report considers Government policy on human rights in Burma and concludes that the EU's decision to lift economic sanctions in April 2013 was the right one, given the remarkable progress made in Burma. But it warns that the UK should be prepared to advocate re-imposition of sanctions if undertakings on human rights are not followed through. The Government should also urge condemnation of those responsible for violence in Rakhine State in 2012. The Committee does not support suggestions that the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games should be boycotted in protest against human rights abuses in Russia
House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee: The UK's Relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain - HC 88
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215064585
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Saudi Arabia and Bahrain remain key partners for the UK but relations are complicated by the differences between our societies and the pressing need for reform in the Gulf. Historic warm relations between the UK government and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are not mirrored in public opinion in Saudi Arabia and the UK, and the UK's reputation in Bahrain has also suffered since 2011. The Government must make its public profile and reputation a more central part of its work in the Gulf, consider how it can best support much-needed economic and political reforms, and how it can explain its policies and point to specific achievements when speaking to the public at home and in the Gulf. In Saudi Arabia, the Government must convert its promising steps so far in providing assistance on legal and judicial reform into solid and reportable programmes. In Bahrain, it must work to secure access for NGOs and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and press more strongly for swifter implementation of reforms. Saudi Arabia's role as a key buyer for the UK defence industry is controversial but the report finds little to suggest that ending defence sales from the UK would have any positive effect. The aggressive way in which the Bahraini security forces handled events in 2011 has deeply damaged Bahrain's reputation. The recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) were sensible and the Bahraini government's failure fully to implement them is inexplicable.
Defence Select Committee; Foreign Affairs Select Committee; International Development Select Committee; Trade and Industry Select Committee: Committees Inquiry Into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls. Defence Select Committee Fifth Special Report (and Foreign Affairs Select Committee Third Special Report, International Development Select Committee Second Special Report and Trade and Industry Select Committee Ninth Special Report) with Proceedings, Evidence (with Foreign Affairs Select Committee, International Development Select Committee and Trade and Industry Select Committee) and Appendices
Author: Foreign Affairs Committee. Second Special Report. Recent Developments in the Horn of Africa
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House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee: The Future of the BBC World Service - HC 1045
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215070548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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In this report, published on the last day that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funding responsibility for the World Service, the Foreign Affairs Committee says that it has "clear differences" with the BBC on new arrangements for governance of the World Service. It specifically has reservations about the move to licence fee funding for the World Service and what that would mean for the World Service's budget, and its ability to be heard amongst all the other competing voices within the BBC. The Committee regrets that the World Service now has no direct voice on either the BBC Executive Board or the Management Board, and it says that it "remains to be seen" whether representation of the World Service's interests at Board level by the Director of News and Current Affairs will indeed safeguard the distinct nature of the World Service. The Committee welcomes the assurance given in evidence by James Harding, the BBC's Director of News and Current Affairs, that the £245 million budget for the World Service in 2014-15 will be used as a baseline for the following two years. But what is really needed is longer-term protection at institutional level, and we continue to be concerned about the absence of a direct voice for the World Service on either the BBC's Executive Board or the Management Board
Second Special Report from the Select Committee on Publications and Debates Reports Together with the Further Proceedings of the Committee
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