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.
UK says the number of girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) “is growing” with 230 million women and girls alive today who have undergone FGM and 4.2 million girls at risk of undergoing FGM every year. The UK is investing up to £35.5 million in the Africa-Led Movement to End FGM programme which operates in Kenya, Senegal, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Government says”We must work 27 times faster to eliminate FGM by 2030″
Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign,...