Thank you. I am delighted to be here with you today. Ladies and gentlemen, our global food system is failing us. One seventh of the population are going hungry. The threats to our food supplies from droughts, floods and other climate shocks are increa… read more
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council (HRC) aimed at improving the human rights situation of all 193 UN member states. The UK strongly supports the UPR process, and we have spoken at every session and ab… read more
I’m extremely pleased to be here before you today and it’s an important part of my role to speak to the people charged with the responsibility for the effective running of the electoral processes that underpin our overall democratic system. As some of… read more
British officials are not given to expressions of righteous anger; the dispatches in my red boxes usually reflect the Foreign Office tradition of measured and judicious prose. Thankfully, there are exceptions. As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day tom… read more
Thank you for that kind introduction. Welcome everybody to tropical Teesport. When the Cabinet meets next week and various of my colleagues moan about how cold it was in Davos I’ll suggest they try the North Sea in January. Teesport – this is the expo… read more