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United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office Human Rights and Democracy: The 2010 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty March 2011 Cm 8017 £39.75
© Crown copyright 2011 You may re-use this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or e-mail: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: Human Rights and Democracy Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles St London SW1A 2AH This publication is also available on http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/ ISBN: 9780101801720 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID: 2420077 03/11 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum.
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Page 5 and 6: Guantanamo Bay 53 Counter-prolifera
Page 7 and 8: Foreword by Foreign Secretary Willi
Page 9 and 10: Foreword by Minister of State Jerem
Page 11 and 12: SECTION I: Promoting British Values
Page 13 and 14: legislation and practices, includin
Page 15 and 16: Domestic observation also plays an
Page 17 and 18: Georgia, Uganda, Mozambique and Leb
Page 19 and 20: surge in abductions: 51 reporters w
Page 21 and 22: The Government publicly launched it
Page 23 and 24: prevent their execution. We also wo
Page 25 and 26: prison management by those who atte
Page 27 and 28: We also offered political and pract
Page 29 and 30: Special Tribunal for Lebanon During
Page 31 and 32: Freedom to practise religion in Aze
Page 33 and 34: protect concepts or specific belief
Page 35 and 36: The UK was keenly involved during 2
Page 37 and 38: criminalise homosexuality. And in M
Page 39 and 40: what progress has been made. And to
Page 41 and 42: Dalits still continue to face discr
Page 43 and 44: Roma The Government remains concern
Page 45 and 46: Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues Sir
Page 47 and 48: Andrew presented the revised UK cou
Page 49 and 50: SECTION II: Human Rights in Safegua
Page 51 and 52: x end the indiscriminate use of ter
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All individuals have the right to a
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x an inquiry to examine whether, an
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Counter-proliferation The Governmen
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the use of these munitions in futur
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departments to ensure that the reso
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those in camps. Successes included
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Kashmiri people. We also call for a
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The Responsibility to Protect At th
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For the first time the strategy dra
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affected countries. At the end of 2
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SECTION III: Human Rights in Promot
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ights and democratic principles sho
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three international conventions lis
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emedies by victims of human rights
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Indonesian Voluntary Principles par
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A new Bribery Act received Royal As
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efuse an application, consideration
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One particular case arose in July,
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and an education programme for scho
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cases or linking child abduction to
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The UK sees the Commonwealth as an
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to health. We abstained on the Gene
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priorities ahead of the 2011 review
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The European Union The EU’s econo
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With support from several other mem
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continue to communicate the achieve
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David Morris visited Albania in 201
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the EU announced the launch of 10 n
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persons continue to face severe cha
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to enable Commonwealth countries to
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Despite these difficulties the UK w
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SECTION VI: Promoting Human Rights
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the end of 2011. Similar training w
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Almost all populated Overseas Terri
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families, which addressed their rol
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Afghanistan The Afghan government,
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appropriate, convict insurgents and
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structures throughout the Afghan po
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cases, UK-captured detainees have a
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Television and radio stations, webs
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educe the impact of conflict on wom
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Belarus After some small steps towa
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Death penalty Belarus is the only r
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2000. The Belarusian authorities ha
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Burma The year 2010 saw the first e
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under the new constitution, 25% of
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leaking confidential information. T
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Surveillance of the Burmese Buddhis
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We regularly raised the need for di
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DFID and our Embassy reinforced civ
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Our high commission staff from neig
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Death penalty The death penalty rem
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Chad are Islam (52%), Christianity
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Conflict Since the comprehensive vi
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China China has made huge progress
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2010. One ended with the execution
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has continued. Under this system po
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Liu Xiaobo, who is currently servin
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We believe that the special tribuna
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Colombia The tone of the national d
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clear majority -14 of 16 judges - w
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Presidential Programme on Human Rig
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igade in Apartadó and the Chargée
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Elections Cuba held municipal elect
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The Cuban government also released
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Democratic People’s Republic of K
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developed juvenile justice system.
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The World Food Programme remains co
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engaged with the relevant DRC autho
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Prisons and detention issues Prison
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ather than a source of protection.
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Conflict The DRC has suffered the e
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Eritrea The real lack of progress o
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estimates are in the tens of thousa
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drought and to promote the voluntar
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Iran The year 2010 was marked by a
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We were deeply concerned about the
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continued to execute those who comm
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epeatedly called on the Iranian gov
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and for continuing her work as a la
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The Iranian authorities also contin
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Women continued to be at the forefr
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Protection of civilians Iran is hom
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Iraq The year 2010 saw the governme
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Death penalty The death penalty con
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Prison facilities in Iraq remained
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twice as high as in men in rural ar
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adly treated by the Iraqi authoriti
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One of the key tools we have to pro
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Palestinian Authority security forc
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states of the EU in the December 20
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already scarce water supplies and r
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Israeli NGO Hamoked, many of those
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“Today marks the fourth anniversa
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Death penalty The Libyan penal code
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government on a regular basis throu
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In June Libya asked the UN High Com
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ights commitments is integral to en
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to terrorism in Pakistan in 2010, w
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atifying it. It had also not amende
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government to account, although som
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parliamentarians and activists, we
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Caucasus depends on human rights be
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However, events in 2010 demonstrate
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Caucasus region, particularly in Ch
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freely. But the vagueness of the la
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security situation in Ingushetia re
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Saudi Arabia Many of our concerns a
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In October 2008 King Abdullah launc
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The Saudi Ministry of Interior is c
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The National Dialogue, which was la
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In April, a court in Buraidah was r
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Somalia The Transitional Federal Go
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Programme in training more judges,
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Throughout 2010 al-Shabaab imposed
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Puntland. However, in Somaliland, v
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Sri Lanka The number of reports of
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approximately 65,000 cases. As a co
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also held in the same facilities as
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prison sentence, he lost his seat a
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Monitoring groups reported that dur
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Women’s rights Sri Lanka has an e
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north by the Liberation Tigers of T
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missing relatives. A smaller number
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Sudan This is a critical time for S
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Promoting human rights in South Sud
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In the South there were numerous re
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Rule of law The administration of j
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independent newspapers have experie
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Children’s rights The Child Act w
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Syria Widespread violations of huma
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themselves. Prisoners were not allo
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27 July. There has been no response
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Women’s rights The Syrian constit
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Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a sign
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Torture and other ill treatment The
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eligion and belief was one of a num
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areas, and to support parliamentary
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Defenders of Uzbekistan claimed tha
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defamation related to his work for
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Women’s rights Gender discriminat
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Vietnam Freedom of expression and p
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and appeal hearings and to visit pr
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Torture and other ill treatment In
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and Cu Huy Ha Vu, who was charged w
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Children’s rights Human trafficki
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Yemen The government of Yemen faced
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We will also offer the government d
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officials raised their concerns abo
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Zimbabwe The human rights environme
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improvement in human rights and gov
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Human rights defenders The state ha
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Artists also faced harassment in 20
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