Day: July 17, 2018

The Officers of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief strongly condemn the escalating violence in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which includes the targeting of Sikh and Hindu communities. On Wednesday 11 July gunmen attacked an education department office in Jalalabad and held out against security forces for some…

On 16 July Lord Ahmad, the Minister for Human Rights Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, published the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s 2017 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report. The official press release stated “The report is a barometer for the global human rights picture with particular emphasis on the FCO’s 30 Human Rights Priority Countries….