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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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10th December 2012 Washington DC, USA
Unsung Heroes
Did you know – and not a lot of people know this – that the area that is often loosely referred to as ‘Los Angeles’ is actually made up of eighty-eight cities and is the second most populous in the United States, after New York City, with a population of nearly four million? Further, that […]
10th December 2012
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The UK in the EU: 40 years on; assessing impact
Britain joined the EU (or the EEC as it then was) on 1 January 1973. To say the least the EU (and the UK) has changed a lot since then. For most of that period there’s been a lively debate on what the impact of EU membership is on the UK. Our government is clear […]
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