In the Joint Committee on Human Rights I pressed Minister Michael Tomlinson MP to accept that the Rwanda Act will not tackle the root causes of the mass displacement of more than 114 million people – and treatment of vulnerable human beings should not be treated like a game of pass the parcel.
Witness: Michael Tomlinson KC MP, Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration, Home Office.
Government responds to call to consider further sanctions, particularly on aviation fuel, to prevent the supply of funds, fuels and arms to Burma’s Military Junta; asked what assessment they have made of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report Situation of human rights in Myanmar; and Humanitarian Situation
Baroness Chapman of Darlington, the Foreign,...