Results 1-20 of 115 for iraq speaker:Baroness Tonge
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Birth Defects (2 Nov 2009)
Baroness Tonge: To ask Her Majesty's Government what investigations are being ordered into the reports of congenital abnormalities in babies born in Iraq, since the war, and Fallujah in particular.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq (20 Jul 2009)
Baroness Tonge: To ask Her Majesty's Government what investigations have been carried out on members of the Iraq war inquiry to ensure their impartiality.
- Israel and Palestine: Negotiations (2 Jul 2008)
Baroness Tonge: ...in the West Bank, anti-Semitism will again stalk Europe. Israel will never have peace and the world will never be free of terrorism unless this problem is resolved first. Attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq—and Iran next—are not the answer. They have created more terrorism. The answer is a peaceful and just settlement for Israel and the Palestinians, and Israel holds most of the cards.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Mosul (12 Jun 2008)
Baroness Tonge: asked Her Majesty's Government: What discussions they have had with the Government of Iraq concerning the security situation in Mosul.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Mosul (12 Jun 2008)
Baroness Tonge: asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they have made to the Government of Iraq concerning the persecution of academics, Christians and other groups in Mosul.
- Iraq: Basra (15 May 2008)
Baroness Tonge: ...—catastrophe—in Palestine, will the Minister agree that it would have been much, much better to have put huge efforts into solving the Israel-Palestine question instead of making war on Iraq?
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Female Education (21 Apr 2008)
Baroness Tonge: ...s Government: What is their response to the recent report by Women for Women International which found a substantial drop in the number of girls being enrolled in school over the past five years in Iraq; and What is their response to the latest figures published by the United Nations which suggest that the number of illiterate women in Iraq has increased from 2 per cent in the 1970s and...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Food Security (1 Apr 2008)
Baroness Tonge: ...response to the recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, which claims that food security could be adversely affected by climate change, leading to social unrest in Iraq.
- Iraq: UK Forces (20 Mar 2008)
Baroness Tonge: My Lords, when will the Government apologise for the catastrophe in Iraq, for bringing terrorism into that country, and for increasing the risk of terrorism in our own country?
- Debate on the Address (12 Nov 2007)
Baroness Tonge: ...being methodically and intentionally targeted by terrorists". This may be true but I cannot be the only person in this country who mistrusts every word uttered on this subject since the invasion of Iraq. I learnt the terrible tale of Matilda by Hilaire Belloc very well when I was a child. Let us believe them all for once and then instead of finding ever more draconian measures to curtail...
- Public Demonstrations (Repeals) Bill [HL] (26 Jan 2007)
Baroness Tonge: ..., Lord Judd, that war is unaesthetic, scruffy, untidy, dirty, noisy and dangerous, but we must be allowed to protest against it. Our Government have broken international law by going to war with Iraq. Despite the Government's legislation prohibiting such action, we are still selling arms to countries that will use them for internal repression or external aggression. The Government have...
- Armed Forces: Nuclear Deterrent (24 Jan 2007)
Baroness Tonge: ...noble Lord, Lord Owen, who is not in his place, asked in his fascinating and brilliant speech, what about our ordinary defence forces? Is it obscene that we possess nuclear weapons but there are soldiers in Iraq who did not have sufficient body armour for the job they were supposed to do? Is it obscene that we have nuclear weapons in this country and our Armed Forces, wives, children and...
- Middle East and Afghanistan (5 Dec 2006)
Baroness Tonge: ...more doubt, look at the Independent today. Insult has been added to injury by withdrawing revenue and aid, and by refusing to talk to a democratically elected Government in Palestine. Thousands of Iraqis and many of our own citizens—and American citizens—are dying for democracy in the Iraq war. What hypocrites we are. The treatment of the Palestinians by Israel defies...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Academics (15 Jun 2006)
Baroness Tonge: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many academics and doctors have been killed in Iraq since April 2003 in connection with the insurgency, broken down by (a) sex; (b) religion; (c) qualification or speciality; and (d) year.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Academics (15 Jun 2006)
Baroness Tonge: asked Her Majesty's Government: What discussions they have had with the Government of Iraq and the coalition forces about the safety of Iraqi academics.
- Iraq: Reconstruction (26 Jan 2006)
Baroness Tonge: My Lords, at the time of sanctions against Iraq, there was huge concern about the nutritional state of children in that country. Has that improved, and, if so, who is monitoring it?
- Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (9 Feb 2005)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the awarding of contracts for (a) reconstruction and (b) the privatisation of public services during the period of the interim government in Iraq.
- Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (20 Jan 2005)
Dr Jenny Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total cost of military action in Iraq was in (a) 2003–04 and (b) 2004–05 to date.
- Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (11 Jan 2005)
Dr Jenny Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what reports he has received concerning the use by coalition forces of toxic chemical agents on (a) military and (b) civilian targets in Iraq.
- Written Answers — Prime Minister: IAEA Reports (Iraq) (9 Dec 2004)
Dr Jenny Tonge: To ask the Prime Minister what (a) oral and (b) written reports he received on the morning of 7 September 2002 from the International Atomic Energy Agency concerning Iraq's weapons capability.