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The Foreign Office response to the Foreign Affairs Committee's recommendations regarding the Foreign Office's Human Rights work.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The UK recognises a right to water and a right to sanitation as elements of the right to an adequate standard of living in Article 11 of the…
This strategy paper sets out the actions the UK government sees as necessary to help protect civilians in armed conflict, building on work that is already going on in the UK and internationally.
The Strategy for the Prevention of Torture sets out FCO policy and offers guidance to FCO posts on how they can further the torture prevention…
This strategy sets out the UK’s policy on the death penalty, and offers guidance to FCO overseas missions on how they can take forward our objectives…
This toolkit aims to give guidance to political, economic, commercial and development officers in overseas missions on how to promote good conduct…
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