Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Ann Clwyd

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ..., except the Turkish Government, that she should not have been in prison. After 10 years, due to international pressure, Leyla Zana was released. She still holds the same views; nothing has changed. A growing number of terrorist attacks are being carried out in south-east Turkey. The number of people who have been killed in that civil war so far is 30,000 to 45,000, including more than...

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (22 Nov 2007)

Ann Clwyd: ...been in regular contact with members of the ASEAN inter-parliamentary Myanmar caucus to discuss joint action. Indeed, at the recent conference in Geneva, the UK withdrew its urgent resolution on climate change in favour of a resolution that criticised events in Burma. Since then, we have continued to be in regular contact with the caucus, and I commend the delegates' continued efforts to...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (18 Jul 2006)

Ann Clwyd: ...citizens. By working on the cases of parliamentarians who have not been able to carry out their mandates that are brought to the attention of the committee, we help to foster good governance and a climate of respect for human rights. I have had the honour of chairing the committee internationally for the past three years, and have been a member for five years. Its working methods are not...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund Bill: East Timor (15 Dec 1994)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...across the country by invoking an obscure law requiring police permission for meetings of more than five people. The banning of Indonesia's three leading news magazines in June has deepened the climate of fear among journalists. In the run-up to November's APEC meeting—these incidents were well documented in the British press—the Government flooded Jakarta with 15,000 military...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Ms Ann Clwyd: I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman and time is short. Governments have tried to shift attention to the issues of climate change, population, forestry and, until recently, biodiversity. The original climate change convention has been considerably weakened because of the role of the United States and the United Kingdom. Over the past 130 years or more the impacts of industrial...

Prayers: Overseas Development (14 Dec 1990)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...sea rose by one metre in Egypt, Bangladesh, Vietnam and China alone should be enough to spur the industrialised countries into action. Millions more farmers would be devastated by the effect of a warmer climate, particularly in arid lands. With 10 million people facing famine in Ethiopia and Sudan, and millions more in Angola, Liberia and Mozambique, the potential disaster is barely...

Bill Presented: Aid and the Environment (26 Jun 1990)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...rises, while the low-lying islands and deltas of Bangladesh, Vietnam and Egypt would be devastated by a rise in sea level. Those countries have least resources to help them adapt to massive changes. The majority of the world's poor still depend on agriculture, and they will be hardest hit. The timing and quantity of rainfall is vitally important in their lives but is likely to become less...

Overseas Development and Co-operation (14 Jun 1990)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...tend to be irreversible. It has proved only too easy to set off the vicious circle of land clearance, soil erosion, decreased fertility of the land, disappearing vegetation and an increasingly arid climate. There is no evidence that we can so easily reverse the process to achieve thicker vegetation and improved land fertility, humidity and productivity. Therefore, immediate action to...

Kampuchea (21 Jan 1988)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...years, eight months and 20 days of Pol Pot terror, what he had done before the Pol Pot regime. "A student of literature," he said, "hoping to become a teacher." "And now?" "All our dreams have been changed," he said quietly. We were taken to see the mass graves just outside one of the villages. The remains are now to be seen in a grisly exhibition. Hundreds of skulls were stacked together...

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (31 Oct 1984)

Ms Ann Clwyd: ...a graphic cover headed "Blitzkrieg and the Airland Battle" by Major-General John W. Woodmansee of the United States army. The article states: The Airland Battle doctrine is producing significant changes in the way the Army operates on the battlefield. Combat units will possess expanded capabilities that will enable them to employ blitzkrieg-type techniques against larger enemy forces. That...