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UK chides China for rights abuse of Uyghur minority ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 23:26 IST
London [UK], January 12 (ANI): The United Kingdom on Tuesday blasted China for the harrowing treatment of its Uyghur minority and said will introduce new measures to ensure that UK companies are not part of Xinjiang region supply chain.
Addressing the country s Parliament, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday said that the evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violation being purported in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far-reaching. The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violation being purported in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far-reaching and it paints the truly harrowing picture. Violations include extrajudicial detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims in reeducation camps, he said.
Farm law protests: Over 100 British MPs urge Boris Johnson to take up matter with PM Modi
The letter said that people in UK were ‘horrified to see’ the use of water cannons and tear gas against protesting farmers. Jan 10, 2021 · 04:42 pm Police personnel use water canons on protesting farmers to stop them from marching to Delhi in Ambala on November 26. | PTI
Over 100 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom have written to the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to take up the farmers’ protests against India’s new agriculture laws with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The letter dated January 5, was released by UK’s Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Twitter on Friday. It said that people in the UK, especially with links to Punjab or India, were “horrified to see footage of water cannon, tear gas and brute force” against peacefully protesting farmers.
UK meets £250m match aid target into COVAX, the global vaccines facility English
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Comes as the UN Secretary-General António Guterres starts a ‘virtual visit’ to UK to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
Broad Sanctuary Green in Westminster is officially re-named ‘United Nations Green’ to commemorate the first UN General Assembly meeting at Westminster Central Hall in 1946.
The UK has helped to raise $1 billion for the coronavirus COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) through match-funding other donors, which combined with the £548 million of UK aid pledged will help distribute one billion doses of coronavirus vaccines to 92 developing countries this year.