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  • Mike Pompeo and Chris Patten call for solidarity with the people of Hong Kong as they face draconian new laws to curb their freedoms. Global Strategy Forum article “Why the China Reckoning Must Put Human Rights At Its Heart” argues that the Chinese Communist Party’s behaviour “means standing four square with the beleaguered people of Hong Kong in their existential battle for ‘two systems, one country’ – and to whom we have a historic, legal, and moral responsibility.” Question in Parliament about CCP involvement in strategic infrastructure and the World Health Organisation
  • Nigeria and oil dependency – and the risks to its economy and social cohesion following the crash in oil prices
  • Minister responds to Amnesty report about the targeting of medical facilities an schools in Idlib – north east Syria – by Turkey and Russia and says it”provides useful further evidence of unlawful attacks by the Assad regime and Russia on civilian targets in Idlib” and demands “accountability for these crimes.”
  • The failure to test, the failure to provide PPE, and the  discharge of patients with Covid from hospitals into care homes, has been compounded by the failure to provide care homes with the resources to see through this crisis – as one home in Liverpool sees 20 of its residents die. Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England told a Parliamentary Select Committee that from the start of the pandemic care homes were a second thought despite housing the “most vulnerable people”. In a Parliamentary reply the Government fails to answer claims by to Doctors Association UK about problems with personal protection equipment and reports that PPE is being shipped from the UK to Germany, Spain, and Italy, because UK companies claim that offers of help have not been pursued.And Parliamentary Questions about the Reform of the World Health Organisation
  • House of Lords Debate at the Committee Stage of the Telecommunications Bill. Peers call for Huawei and other international companies to demonstrate that they do not use Uighur slave labour in Xinjiang and a call for democracies to unite around a new Helsinki Process to hold the Chinese Communist Party to account for violations of human rights: Helsinki with Chinese Characteristics  
  • The Government replies to a parliamentary question on reports of UK seafarers – caught up in Covid19 lockdowns -have been stranded on ships
  • Further Questions on Care Homes Raised in Parliament – May 19th – about the report to the Government by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services that (1) demand for personal protection equipment “could rapidly outstrip supply”, (2) advice on controlling cross infection will be required, and (3) they should “provide support with systems to collate data on suitable volunteers…as this was an area of weakness identified”, in the event of a pandemic; and what steps they took in response to that report; about whether human rights laws have been breached by hospitals that discharged older patients that were potentially infected with COVID-19 into care homes; and comments by the National Care Association that care homes have felt “completely abandoned” during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • May 18 – Today’s House of Lords debate on the international response to Covid 19 – including a call for an international inquiry into the genesis of a virus claiming hundreds of thousands of lives all over the world and doing incalculable damage to fragile societies and economies,
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