Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing has been prepared in advance of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, to be marked on 6 February 2019.
Research Briefing
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming question for short debate on what action Her Majesty’s Government are taking following the resignation of the government of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council where they co-sponsored with the United Kingdom the Resolution 30/1 in 2015 and Resolution 34/1 in 2017, and given the progress made towards many aspects highlighted in the resolutions, what assessment they have made of whether to annul or withdraw those resolutions.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides information on Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on 27 January 2019.
Research Briefing
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming question for short debate on social and human rights issues in the Philippines.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Briefing pack contains a selection of material relevant to the forthcoming debate on developments in the Western Balkans and the threat posed by instability and insecurity in that region.
Research Briefing
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming question for short debate on what steps Her Majesty's Government are taking to support adolescent girls in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides information on some of the proposed changes to probation services identified the Government’s recent consultation, 'Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence'.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides information on the international Human Rights Day, which takes place on 10 December 2018.
Research Briefing
This Briefing has been prepared in advance of the debate due to take place in the House of Lords on the motion moved by the Archbishop of Canterbury that “this House takes note of the role of reconciliation in British foreign, defence and international development policy”. It provides definitions of reconciliation, and introduces the linked concepts of ‘soft power’, ‘fragile states’ and ‘post-conflict interventions’. It then summarises UK Government policy and delivery bodies, before discussing the additional roles which might be played in reconciliations by faith-based organisations and women. The Briefing then turns to look at a theoretical framework for reconciliations. Finally, it summarises eight conflicts where reconciliation and/or fragile state interventions have played a part, with varying levels of perceived success.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides information on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, which takes place on 2 December 2018.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing has been prepared in advance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November 2018.
Research Briefing
On 25 October 1968 the Race Relations Act received royal assent. The Act sought to build on the Race Relations Act 1965, which at the time was widely regarded as providing insufficient protection from discrimination, by extending prohibition of racial discrimination in relation to housing, employment and public services, as well as strengthening the Race Relations Board. This briefing sets out the chronology of how the Race Relations Act 1968 came to be passed, referring for context to the passage through Parliament earlier that year of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides an overview of the Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill which is due to receive its second reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 2018.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing provides information on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, marked on 30 July each year.
Research Briefing
This House of Lords Library Briefing has been prepared in advance of the second reading in the House of Lords of the Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [HL] on 20 July 2018.
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