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Country Files 1

The box contains various country folders from Czech Republic, Cambodia, Bulgaria, Chechnya, Cuba, Cyprus, Guatemala, Hungary, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru and Rwanda.

There are correspondence, letters, House of Commons/Lords Parliamentary questions, Foreign and Commonwealth Background Briefs, press releases, Campaign Against Arms Trade papers, Early Day Motions, Human Rights Watch/Middle East and Africa papers, Background Information, United Nations Commission on Human Rights report / papers, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cambodia papers, The European Children's Trust papers, Court of Appeals, National Council of Resistance of Iran statement, submissions, NGOs' papers, Ann's letter of commiseration for Rafic Hariri, British Association for Central and Eastern Europe seminar programme, John Pilger and the high-court libel action, and The British Council prospectus 9345 leaflet.

Various reports and periodicals including: Czech Republic: Annual Report 2003, HOC Research Paper - The Conflict in Chechnya, Friends of Cyprus Report,Foreign Office's Position on Mullahs and Iranian Resistance Under Scrutiny report. Periodicals such as Jane's Defence Weekly, Cuba Solidarity Campaign booklet, The Cambodian Independent Teachers Association Booklet and the Turkish Cypriot Network.

Country Files 2

The box contains various country folders from Ukraine, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Peru, Chile, El Salvador, America, Middle East to Brazil.

There are letters, correspondence articles, newspaper clippings and The New Vision Newspaper, Amnesty International papers, publications, publications extracts, reports, Human Rights Watch papers, HOL Parliamentary questions, press release, information sheets, leaflets and Council of Europe papers
There is also a Kurdish Human rights newsline, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Human Rights Watch - Helsinki, British-Vietnam All-Party Group, Saigon Children's Charity pack, Zimbabwe Country Strategy Paper and a Notebook on Peru: May-June 1993

Foreign Affairs Committee - By Country

The box contains various country folders - Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Yemen, Montserrat, India, Africa, Antarctica, Syria, Cambodia and and a bundle of papers covering the 'Middle East' region.
They include articles, newspaper clippings, letters, correspondence, case papers, press releases, book extracts, Visit programme and reports, various reports, Government Response to the House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee Reports, guest lists, HOC oral debates, briefings, Parliamentary Questions, Non-Governmental Organisation's papers, All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights papers, House of Commons Research Notes, High Court of Justice hearing papers, invitations and a lunch seating plan.

The folders cover human rights, EU referendum, manufactured arms sales, Gambia Politics, South Africa Bill, Greenpeace, John Pilger's work, British Public Health operations complaints, The Magnitsky Amendment, Cambodian conflict, Georgia and Russia war, Kashmir

Foreign Affairs Committee 2011

The folders contain Foreign Affairs Committee papers from 2011. They cover areas such as Ann's Visit to America, BBC World Service, Human Rights, Brazil visit, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Somalia piracy and Parliamentary debates. Plus House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee papers.

Foreign Affairs Committee 2012

The box contains various Foreign Affairs Committee papers from 2011-2012, covering Turkey, Scottish Referendum, the FASC business papers, Mr. Assange, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Human Right Affairs, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, EU, Olympics, Diamond Jubilee, Events, Commonwealth and the Arab Spring. There are correspondence and letters, articles, tables, annexes, written evidence, Reports and a appointments card.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee.

Foreign Affairs Committee, 2009-2017

The folders contain various Foreign Affairs Committee meeting minutes or notes, Chairman proposals, correspondence, transcripts, articles, Background Briefing, programmes, committee visits and update briefs.

They cover topics such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Libya, Human Rights Work, Arms Sales, Iraq Inquiry, Syria and arms controls.

Human Rights

The box contains folders on Human Rights, with focus on topics such as Commonwealth, Death Penalty, Pinochet, Ilisu Dam, International Criminal Court, HIV/AIDS, Torture and the Torture Trail,

There various Press Releases, articles/press cuttings, newspaper clippings, Early Day Motions, IDC papers, letters, correspondence, Parliamentary Profile, Court affairs papers, written notes, Parliamentary Questions, Submissions, Welsh Centre for International Affairs papers, Leaflets, Torture Contracts, Interview questions/transcripts, Human Rights and Foreign Policy Seminars, Commonwealth reports, Foreign Office and Commonwealth Address by the RT Hon Robin Cook MP to an audience of British NGOs, Statutory Declaration of compliance, Amnesty International papers. Various reports including a House of Commons, Session 1999-2000: Foreign Affairs Committee - Annual Report on Human Rights 1999, reports from UNAIDS, NESTLE, International Committee of the Red Cross, IDS, Minority Rights Group, Parliamentary Human Rights Group. Plus periodicals including a Tribune magazine, DHKC Booklet, newsletters and bulletins, from Focus on Sierra Leone, Commonwealth Countries League , Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, StateWatch and Campaign Against Arm Trade.

IPU

The box contains various papers of and about IPU. It includes a Climate Change Speech - Bali April 2007, two Annual Reports - 2001 and 2015, British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union Executive Committee Meeting minutes 15 September 2015, Executive Committee meeting minutes 2 February 2016, 133rd IPU Assembly and related Meetings papers, Nominations 2015/2016 and Committee on the human rights of parliamentarians report.

Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Legal Matters,

Correspondence, papers, printed matter and press cuttings on a number of subjects of legal interest including human rights, 1974-85, the London Welsh School Appeal, 1983-84, the Labour Defence and Disarmament Group, pensions policies, the establishment of 'black sections' within the Labour Party, the Labour Party campaign against the Community Charge, and a wide range of other subjects of legal interest.

London Welsh School.

MAI; World Bank; privisation & neo-liberal economics- investment

The folder contains various materials on Multilateral Agreement on Investment including, press releases, letters, correspondence, rough essay drafts and information sheets. House of Commons Research Paper- Multilateral Agreement on Investment, 4 March 1998 and The Multilateral Agreement on Investment report, March 1998.There are HOC written and oral answers from 23, 25 February and 18, 25 March 1998. War on Want booklets, Workers Rights are Human Rights: the case for linking trade and core labour standards, World Development Movement papers and reports; OCED Policy brief; briefing papers including from Corporate Europe Observatory and from Clare Short,

NGOs

The box contains various folders on or by Non-Governmental Organisations such as Christian Aid, Eurodad and Nestle Organisation. They cover areas such as Climate Change, poverty and Human Rights,
There are War on Want pamphlets, ActionAid letter to Ann with its' report, Purchasing Power: aid untying, targeting procurement and poverty reduction, Briefing Papers, reports, DFID Energy for the Rural Poor Guidance Note and a list of the European Parliament members of the Committee on Development and Cooperation. Journal of Liberation, Volume 43, Number 2 2000, War on Want Bulletin, , Human Rights and Foreign Policy Seminar essays, joint campaigning document, articles, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, report tables. memorandums and submissions.

Pakistan

The folders contain various reports on Pakistan from organizations like United Nations and Oxfam including Memorandums and Background Briefings, from Oxfam and HealthLine Worldwide. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan papers, International Development Committee visit to the Sub-Continent, Briefing for Pakistan and Orissa Health Sector Reform Project Brief Presentation.

There is also a UK National Statement by George Foulkes MP at the Hague 'ICPD + 5' Forum: 10 February 1999, Information papers, The Nation and The International News Newspapers, House of Commons Oral debate extracts - 19 December 2001, book extracts and dinner list.

Palestine/Israel

The folders contain papers on Israel and Palestine from the 1990s to 2011. There are articles, newspaper clippings, a short biography, correspondence, letters House of Commons parliamentary questions. There are programmes/diary, statements, press release, various United Nations papers, visit briefs, briefings, Meeting minutes, HOC Research Paper - The Crisis in the Middle East during 2001-02, transcripts
There are periodicals and reports like the former, Israel, The Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories - Vol 14, No. 2 and 3. Reports like FCO Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2000, Saferworld Report on The European Union and the Israeli-Pakistan peace process and a Public Lecture annual report

There is a Palestine Solidarity Campaign leaflet, Epilogue to unpublished Book by Chomsky, A 2006 list of MPs detained by Israel

There is also a Leaflet on Protesters - Heroes or Villains , plus some articles and papers on Pakistan.

Saudia Arabia/Yemen

The folders contain materials on the topic of human rights and arms sales in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. These include letters, correspondence, Committees on Arms Export Controls papers including meeting minutes, articles, ministerial statement, HOC Parliamentary questions extracts and letters.

There are also book chapter extracts regarding Parliament- Privilege of Freedom of Speech, Contempt, and Complaints of Breach of Privilege or Contempt,

South Africa,

Most of the material relates to the issue of human rights in South Africa, including several of the publications of Amnesty International and the African National Congress. Some of the papers relate to the preparations for a visit to South Africa by John Morris during October and November 1991.

Amnesty International

United Nations

The folders contain various papers by or on the United Nations. They include, letters, correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, Press releases, Background Briefs, UNICEF Parliamentary papers and Oxfam papers

It also includes forthcoming UN meetings, Saferworld Parliamentary Bulletin, UNESCO document series, UN General Paper.
World Development Movement Parliamentary Briefing and report, Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights, The UN in Brief, The Progress of Nations report and speeches - United Nations Day Speech, Thoughts for the Anniversary Speech - 28 September 1994, Iraq Sanctions speech - 11 March 1995