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HANSARDOverseas Development Assistance: Gender-based ViolenceMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her congratulations; I am delighted to become a She Decides champion. I agree that it is important that we fund NGOs on the front line…28 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, we are a key donor to the UNFPA. We recently announced a £200 million humanitarian package that included an additional £10 million support to the UNFPA, and we will…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, I agree that we need to strengthen the fragile health systems in the world’s poorest countries, where the chance of disease spreading rapidly is the highest. That will…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, we absolutely need an effective Covid-19 vaccine to be developed, trialled and approved for use as quickly as possible. We are doing that in three ways. First, we are…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceI can absolutely confirm our commitment to 0.7%. we need to respond both multi-laterally, though the global system, and bilaterally, in country. We are working quickly to pivot…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, Covid-19 is a global challenge and it is essential that countries come together to tackle the shared threat. We will continue to fund the World Health Organization. We…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceThe noble Lord is right to highlight that global commitments on nutrition financing are indeed ending this year, and I agree with him that this continued investment is needed to…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceI thank my noble friend for that question. She is of course right that during times of crisis, the rights of women and girls are often overlooked. In this time of crisis, when…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, the UK played an instrumental role in establishing the SDGs, and even before Covid-19, we knew that global progress was off track. I am particularly concerned with goal…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Overseas Development AssistanceMy Lords, the Covid-19 pandemic is the biggest threat that this country and the world have faced in our lifetimes, and here in the UK and across the globe we are seeing the…22 Apr 2020HANSARDInternational Women’s DayMy Lords, I thank every Member of the House who has attended the debate and contributed today. We have heard some very powerful messages from across the Chamber, and I am really…10 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: British Citizens Imprisoned AbroadMy Lords, I agree that it is absolutely right that we should get the balance of our reaction correct. Of course, public safety is our top priority and I thank all those already…02 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: British Citizens Imprisoned AbroadIf the noble Baroness is referring directly to the prisoners in Iran, as I say, we are working closely with the Iranian authorities to ensure that we have access to them and that…02 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: British Citizens Imprisoned AbroadMy Lords, we are calling on the Iranian Government to immediately give detained British-Iranian dual nationals access to appropriate medical treatment and our colleagues in Tehran…02 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: British Citizens Imprisoned AbroadMy Lords, we have been in close touch with the Iranian authorities to urge them to secure a temporary release on medical grounds for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, while her release…02 Mar 2020HANSARDCoronavirus: British Citizens Imprisoned AbroadMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the response given by my honourable friend the Minister for Asia and the Pacific to an Urgent…02 Mar 2020HANSARDIndia: Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, for tabling this debate and for his long-standing commitment to humanitarian causes and international development. I am grateful…25 Feb 2020HANSARDRohingya Refugees in BangladeshMy Lords, we welcome the International Court of Justice’s consideration of whether Myanmar has breached the genocide convention. We have consistently expressed our profound…13 Feb 2020HANSARDRohingya Refugees in BangladeshMy Lords, the long-term plan must be that the Rohingya are able to return home, but those returns must be voluntary, safe and dignified. In line with the UN, we do not believe…13 Feb 2020HANSARDRohingya Refugees in BangladeshMy Lords, I also visited the camps in October last year—I think it was just after the parliamentary delegation. The conditions there are indeed terrible. We have seen some welcome…13 Feb 2020