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Arrests and detentions were carried out by security forces and the Imbonerakure, working in conjunction with the police and SNR. The project substantially raised both the profile of UK action against child abuse, and recognition of the need to adhere to international standards. The UK will continue to provide support to countries in their efforts to realise the WPS agenda as we approach the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in October 2020. During the missions, representatives of Governing Council member states and of the International Steering Committee (representing national and regional NGOs) met representatives of government and local civil society. The tribunal concluded the high-profile appeal case concerning Radovan Karadzic, whose original 40-year jail term for committing genocide during the Balkans conflict was extended to life imprisonment. The FCO continued work to implement the Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Guidance across the UK government, providing advice and training to OSJA leads in government departments. Those who suffered losses during the Easter Sunday attacks were paid compensation. The station's original weekday line-up was: Clark McKay (Breakfast), Frank Sanders, Jerry Cohen, Paul Stephens (Afternoon drive), Cocky "Two Bull" Tlhotlhalemaje, Zuby, & Jim Hicks. The UK supported civil society efforts to tackle corruption, and projects to educate girls, reduce teenage pregnancy, and tackle modern slavery. Following concerted lobbying, a new NGO law was passed which removed some of the restrictions imposed by the controversial 2017 law. In his 2019 Ramadan message, King Salman bin Abdulaziz called for tolerance and moderation in Islam. In October, Jennifer Townson took up the role, working to strengthen our international engagement on these issues. The health sector struggled with the withdrawal of labour by doctors in the face of rapidly diminishing salaries, and the failure of government to secure sufficient imports of essential drugs. In partnership with the Secretariat for Pacific Communities (SPC), the UK also provided support for Pacific Commonwealth countries to establish and strengthen NHRIs, and deliver on international human rights commitments. Same-sex marriage is legal in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Pitcairn Islands, St Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha. WFD also worked with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, a German political foundation, to help train political party polling agents, providing local partners with the skills needed to support a credible electoral process. In September, we will be merging the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, placing our world-class aid programme at the beating heart of our foreign policy decision-making. In Peru, FCO programming has supported NGO Padre Pío to open the Peruvian labour market to fleeing Venezuelan migrants. The prison sentences are generally for 2 years. Ethiopia and Gambia also improved their ratings (up 40 and 30 places respectively). Examples include: The UK is determined to continue to champion media freedom. By the end of 2019, Russia had paid its outstanding CoE ordinary budget contributions, with the exception of interest owed. We supported the work of TRIAL International to increase access to justice for CRSV survivors. The UN Independent Expert on human rights in the CAR noted that a decrease in human rights violations and abuses during the first half of the year was likely to be due in part to the signing of a peace agreement on 6 February 2019 between the Government of CAR and 14 armed groups. Various countries have intermittently shut down the internet or continued to resort to censorship or intimidation of the media. In November, the Zimbabwean government replaced the repressive ‘Public Order and Security Act’ with the ‘Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill’. Consular services are at the heart of the FCO’s objective to ‘Protect our People’. In Jubaland and Puntland, political parties faced difficulties opening offices. The UK used the session as an opportunity to call on the DPRK to end its use of forced labour; accede to the Convention against Torture; and end all surveillance and censorship contrary to international human rights laws and standards. The insecurity faced by the Hazara community was made stark in August when Islamic State Khorasan Province conducted an attack against a Shia wedding, leading to 92 civilian deaths, and over 180 people injured. The UK attaches great importance to this issue. CMAG, in conjunction with the Good Offices of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, plays a fundamental role in championing the values and principles of the Commonwealth Charter. In Saudi Arabia the UK was at the forefront of the international response, engaging at the highest levels and pressing publically and privately for a credible and transparent investigation into the death of Jamal Khashoggi. It announced its intention to establish a Special Presidential Commission to investigate the activities of the police. In Indonesia, WFD helped local and national government to apply innovative techniques to review laws intended to combat discrimination and human rights violations in local regulations, to make sure they achieve their intended outcome. There were cases of arbitrary detentions and the abuse of Baha’i detainees, including of Hamed bin Haydara, who was given a death sentence in 2018. We also worked to strengthen provincial government support to minorities and to improve civil society advocacy skills. Many trials involve periods of lengthy pre-trial detention or house-arrest, especially for prominent activists, including Roman Udot and Yuri Dmitriev. The UK strongly encourages all states to abide by and fulfil their obligations under international law. The UK continued to invest in research, including new treatment options for drug resistant tuberculosis. In September, parliament approved the appointment of the first 2 female Supreme Court justices. The UK continued to demonstrate global leadership on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), through our diplomatic, defence, and development efforts as outlined in our fourth UK National Action Plan (NAP) launched in January 2018. Opposition leaders and other critics of the authorities faced increasing difficulties in expressing their opinions, including through social media. Lord Ahmad met faith leaders and civil society groups working on reconciliation and inter-communal relations. Maldives welcomed visits by 2 UN Special Rapporteurs, the first visits by UN Special Rapporteurs since 2013. International justice is also important for forging reconciliation, by giving a voice to the victims of atrocities, and by helping promote lasting peace and stability, as well as by deterring future crimes. The Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) is the world’s largest global fund dedicated to girls’ education, and supports up to 1.5 million marginalised girls with access to education and learning across 17 countries. The UK continued to increase economic opportunities for women through a number of DFID-led programmes, notably 2 programmes that were scaled-up at the UK-Africa Investment Summit: As an international champion for Women’s Economic Empowerment, the UK continued its support for the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, and approved £30 million of new funding for the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa programme, which both supports women entrepreneurs and removes structural barriers to their full economic participation. The authorities repeatedly raided the offices of opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. The UK government supported several projects dedicated to abolishing the death penalty through the £10.6 million allocated to the Magna Carta Fund (part of the FCO’s International Programme). Democratic processes were increasingly controlled, and electoral filters prevented many opposition candidates from standing. Using legislation, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) issued prohibition orders against demonstrations by the opposition and by some civil society and teachers’ groups. Widespread reports of torture (including deaths in detention) and lack of due process or access to legal counsel in cases deemed ‘politically sensitive’ remained concerning. In November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a report on the challenges faced by sexual violence survivors in accessing services in Bangui, the capital city. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 calls for universal access to safe water and sanitation. HUGEN supports human rights and gender equality through peer-to-peer learning, sharing best practice, and improving parliaments’ oversight of the implementation of laws and policies related to gender and human rights. In October, the UK actively participated in negotiations for UN Security Council Resolution 2493, led by South Africa, and successfully lobbied for references to the protection of civil society actors on WPS, in the face of shrinking space for women’s rights organisations. Respect for media freedom also deteriorated in 2019. Gender-based violence remains a serious problem in Colombian society. Established in 1992, WFD is an arms-length body of the FCO dedicated to supporting democracy around the world. At the end of 2019, over 500 websites remained blocked, and 26 journalists were in prison. Human rights monitors logged numerous reports of systematic abuse and torture during arrest and pre-trial detention. However, the implementation of presidential decrees, in general, remained an issue, with reports that authorities, particularly at the local level, did not adhere to these decrees effectively or evenly. But the report did find continuing high rates – with almost one in 3 conflict-related detainees providing credible accounts of being subject to torture and ill treatment – highlighting that further action is needed to eliminate the practice. The UK also supported the Mukwege Foundation in setting up a survivors’ assistance fund. However, women remained underrepresented in Parliament, winning only 4 of 87 seats. Until 2006, 702 was broadcast only on 702 kHz AM. An EU observer mission concluded in its interim report that the 2019 presidential elections were free, fair, and largely trouble free. [footnote 2] Reflecting the UK’s position as a global leader in technology, we engaged partners across the UK government and civil society on cybersecurity, disinformation, and the erosion of human rights online. We worked closely with Nobel Laureates Nadia Murad and Dr Mukwege, in particular on developing the Murad Code, a global minimum standard for the documentation of CRSV, which will ensure that survivors are not re-traumatised during the process. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, visited in September. Hundreds of social and political activists faced prosecution, including through the increased use of repressive laws, for exercising free speech. Freedom of expression and of the press remained highly restricted. The Burundian National Intelligence Service (SNR) and the police also frequently perpetrated human rights violations. The UK welcomed this and the progress made to date, including the establishment of an Office of Missing Persons and the ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances. Credible allegations of torture and mistreatment in detention continued to be reported. Digitalt vinkurs med Liora Levi: Viner fra den nye og den gamle verden The UK welcomed establishment of a Parliamentary Committee on Forced Conversions and the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims. The UK continued to urge Pakistan to improve the human rights situation for all its citizens. The UK welcomed the 2019 reports of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which found that crimes against humanity and war crimes had been committed by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya. [footnote 21]. In the run-up to October’s regional elections, we helped broker a pact in which 9 political parties undertook publicly not to spread disinformation. The President of Zimbabwe has publicly committed his support for abolition, and we engaged regularly with the government and parliament, in conjunction with local and international NGOs, in order to encourage abolition. Lord Pickles visited Alderney in March to discuss the importance of preserving the prison camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during its occupation of the Channel Islands. The Bishop of Truro’s report of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians highlighted issues faced by Christians and other minorities in Pakistan. In the CM, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the CoE called on Russia to commit to all CoE values, abide by its rules, and meet its obligations as a member state. The government introduced additional police stations, fences around the camps, and limited night-time patrols by mixed security forces. Maldives rose 22 places to rank 98 in the annual Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. Serious human rights violations accompanied the period of protest in the first half of the year, including the violent dispersal of peaceful protesters on 3 June. Our work to promote R2P includes programmes that deliver security, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and stability activity, to help countries become safer and more secure. In one of the cases in question, support resulted in the conviction of two armed group combatants for war crimes, enabling more than 100 victims to received compensation. The FCO is responsible for the coordination of cross-Government policy instructions for the Rights of the Child (RoC) resolutions and for thematic debates within multilateral fora, such as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Human Rights Council (HRC). The UK made statements in multilateral fora, including the Human Rights Council, OSCE, Council of Europe, and the Commonwealth, encouraging partners to do more to translate collective commitments into tangible action. There were reports that, given the scale of the attacks, a large number of people were arrested for alleged involvement in extremism. The Zainab Alert, Recovery and Response Bill 2019, to improve response to the kidnapping of children, was sent to the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights in April and presented to the house. In March, WFD organised a conference in Kampala that attracted over 200 participants from more than ten countries, and resulted in parliament looking into cutting nomination fees, which are a big barrier for young people entering politics. The space for civil society in Libya became increasingly restricted. There are 13 UN peacekeeping missions with around 100,000 military, police, and civilian personnel, with 6 large missions, chiefly in sub-Saharan Africa. Several local opposition radio stations had their licences suspended in 2019. The UN also reported widespread damage to infrastructure including hospitals, schools, and water systems. The conference would address key challenges including violence and discrimination towards LGBT people, and their continued criminalisation. The second, co-sponsored by the UK, established an independent international fact-finding mission (FFM) to investigate extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, and torture since 2014. The government took measures to ensure that export controls for strategic items, including those covered by the EU Torture Regulations, would continue to work effectively after the UK leaves the European Union. We urged the Government of the Philippines to reconsider moves to re-instate the death penalty. Below is an estimate of the number of OSJA cases from across government during FY 2019 to 2020: UK export licensing processes are key to ensuring responsible UK defence and security exports. The impact of war falls primarily on civilians, particularly women and children. The UK also co-sponsored side events at the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly raising concerns about the serious human rights situation in Xinjiang and calling for China to allow UN observers unfettered access to the region. The seriousness of the human rights situation made it vital that the Group of Eminent Experts was given further time to examine the conflict fully, and to ensure that its conclusions accurately reflect the conduct of all parties, especially the destabilising role of Iran. In Iraq, the environment for journalists and the media became increasingly oppressive after large-scale anti-Government protests broke out in October. Continued closure of the majority of crossing points along the Administrative Boundary Line raised tensions and resulted in frequent detentions and severe restrictions on freedom of movement, affecting livelihoods, education, and access to healthcare. They are the foundations on which strong institutions, responsible and accountable government, a free press, the rule of law, and equal rights for all people are built. The UK started the year as the chair of the Governing Council of the CoD, concluding our 6-month term in March. The UK continued to pursue a ‘whole of route’ approach, working at all stages of migratory routes in origin, transit, and destination countries, as envisaged by the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The CSSF ‘Multilateral Championing our Values’ programme continues to support efforts to stamp out SEA within the UN system, providing a further $1 million during 2018 to 2019, bringing the UK’s total contribution to $3 million over the last 3 years. DFID continued to support efforts to raise safeguarding standards across the international aid sector to ensure the delivery of aid in a way that does no harm. The UK also delivered a statement, on behalf of the 16 invoking states, on the 2018 Moscow Mechanism report on human rights violations in Chechnya, as well as co-organising an event on this with speakers from the region. For now, the government of Tanzania has no plan to offer a special relief package for the aviation industry on the grounds that no one - including the govt. Political opposition figures and civil society critics were systematically targeted by state authorities and the Imbonerakure. We also supported resolutions on the human rights situations in Nicaragua, Libya, Georgia (relating to the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia), the Philippines, and Cambodia. This often occurred in front of family members, who were then subject to death threats if they reported the rape. These include more effective UN Special Political Missions, UN Country Teams, UN Policing, UN Peacekeeping, increased mediation capacity, and a strengthened Women, Peace and Security agenda. Despite extensive lobbying by the UK and partners, the Iraqi cabinet had only one female minister. Turkey’s incursion into north-east Syria in October resulted in the displacement of over 200,000 people, and significantly worsened the humanitarian situation across the area. There was no evidence of an improvement in respect for the rights of LGBT people. There were credible reports of live fire against protesters and of mass arrests.