SINCE 2014 the Chinese government has been engaging in a campaign against the Muslim population of Xinjiang, suppressing expressions of religion and imprisoning large numbers of people of mainly Uighur ethnicity in detention camps, without due process. Estimates put the number of people detained at over a million. As well as reports of forced labour and other abuses, there are reports of Uighur women experiencing forced insertion of IUDs and forced sterilisations and abortions. These reports appear to be substantiated by official Chinese statistics which show birth rates in Uighur regions declining by more than 60 per cent between 2015 to 2018 (the most recent year for which statistics are available).
A push for independence is one of the political routes to get away from the UK Government LOOKING at the past week’s parliamentary activities in the House of Commons, and I must say I am concerned regarding the future of our country if this is a flavour of things to come. Johnson and his fascist cohorts have no regard for the wellbeing of people or true democratic principles and human rights. An amendment to protect the NHS from future trade talks in the UK Trade Bill was voted down with 355 MPs against and 266 MPs for it – a shocker! Then another amendment to veto trade with countries that have known genocide activities – voted down again?
Government should adopt US trade bill amendment to remove threat to online child safety laws
Tech giants have previously used US trade deals to secure opt-outs from other countries online regulations and laws
18 January 2021 • 12:30pm
Tech giants have successfully lobbied for protections from liability to be inserted into US trade deals with countries such as Mexico and Japan
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The US-UK Trade Bill poses a threat to children’s online protections, but tomorrow (Tuesday) Parliament has a very straightforward opportunity to remove this threat.
Since then, a cross party group of parliamentarians (including two former Culture Secretaries) have written to Liz Truss, the Secretary of State for Trade, asking for confirmation that the UK’s ‘specific and admirable advances in data protection for children’ will not be sacrificed, but so far to no avail.
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