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12th December 2012 New Delhi, India
The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency of UK visits India
Last week, UK Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in association with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) organised a series of seminars in India. The first seminar on the theme of UK regulatory procedures for pharmaceutical products was held in Mumbai on 3 December. The event brought together over 100 delegates from pharmaceutical and […]
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11th December 2012 Lima, Peru
Reflections on International Human Rights Day
By Salomón Lerner F., former President of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Chancellor Emeritus of the Catholic University (PUCP). Every 10th of December we commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. Sixty-four years have passed since this took place and since then many advances have been […]
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11th December 2012 London, UK
Consular Christmas blogs: Japan – Romance, cake and police cells
The following is a post by Naomi Cowan, Vice Consul, Tokyo. Christmas cheer, trip to Tokyo, big night out, a few too many, punch a snowman… six days in a police cell… is how one British national spent the run up to Christmas last year. Japan is a good example of how behaviour abroad has […]
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11th December 2012 London, UK
Moving to GOV.UK
On Thursday, the Foreign Office will become one of several more ‘trailblazing’ Government Departments moving part of its publishing operation onto the new single government website GOV.UK. We will start by publishing our news, speeches, policies and corporate information on Inside Government. And by March 2013 we’ll be moving our travel advice,other consular information and […]
11th December 2012
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Combating intolerance and promoting freedom of religion or belief
The British Foreign Office and the Canadian High Commission in London collaborated last week in a conference in London, under the aegis of Wilton Park, on the question of promoting freedom of religion or belief. Participants came together from across the world, and from a range of institutions – different faiths, different governments, and different […]
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10th December 2012
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Combating sexual violence in conflict
Through the UK’s Presidency of the G8 in 2013, we’ll be launching a sustained campaign to build a global partnership to prevent sexual violence in conflict. Read more about our global campaign to highlight issues around sexual violence in conflict
10th December 2012
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Human Rights Day: Working with Guatemala to prevent sexual violence
When Guatemala announced it was having a UN Security Council debate on women, peace and security around the same time the Foreign Secretary announced his initiative on preventing sexual violence it became clear that the UK and Guatemala would have a productive working relationship to advance the international community’s response to these issues. I welcome […]
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10th December 2012 Budapest, Hungary
It’s better to give than to receive
Guest blog by Foreign Policy, Justice and Home Affairs and Human Rights Attaché Levente Nyitrai As a young kid I used to not understand that saying. Every Christmas I was eagerly waiting for the chance to attack the nicely wrapped presents under the tree. The moments on Christmas Eve when we entered the until then […]
10th December 2012
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Human Rights – Inspiration in Turkey
A guest blog by Nadia Hashmi, Second Secretary for internal politics and human rights at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey On 10 December 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the day has been celebrated around the world ever since. Turkey ratified the European Convention on Human Rights on […]
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10th December 2012 London, UK
Consular Christmas blogs: Know Before You Go
The following is a post by the FCO’s ‘Know Before You Go’ Team in London. Christmas can be a wonderful time of year to travel – to beat the weather and find a bit of summer sun, to travel to the frozen north with the family to visit Santa, to catch up with family or […]
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