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Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on rights to freedom of peaceful assembly & of association. Delivered by UK's Ambassador to WTO & UN, Simon Manley.
Statement on the human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. As delivered by the UK's Ambassador to the WTO and UN, Simon Manley.
An interim statement by Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon on the human rights situation in the FCDO’s 32 human rights priority countries for January to June 2023.
Activity in 2019 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its diplomatic network to defend human rights and promote democracy worldwide.
Simon Manley, the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN, delivered a statement during Bangladesh’s Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council.
A summary of activity in 2022 by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and its diplomatic network to defend human rights and promote democracy worldwide.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon gave an interim statement on the human rights situation in the FCDO’s 31 human rights priority countries for January to June 2021.
Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Venezuela, as delivered by Simon Manley, UK Ambassador to the WTO and UN in Geneva.
Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders. UK statement at HRC55.
The British Embassy Kinshasa is inviting proposals for projects aimed at strengthening democracy and human rights in DRC and the CAR in 2021/22.
Ambassador James Kariuki gave a joint statement by the UK and 50 other countries at the United Nations Third Committee on human rights violations in Xinjiang.
The UK delivered a statement during Saudi Arabia’s Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council.
On 16 January 2024, representatives of the governments of Mexico and the United Kingdom held the First Multilateral and Human Rights Dialogue.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon gave an interim statement on the human rights situation in the FCO’s 30 human rights priority countries for January to June 2020.
Letter on behalf of 35 OSCE states to invoke the Vienna Mechanism in relation to serious human rights violations in Belarus.
This is a Human Rights Priority Country report taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2015 Human Rights and Democracy Report.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon gave an interim statement on the human rights situation in the FCO’s 30 human rights priority countries for January to June 2019.
Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights on technical assistance for South Sudan. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.
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