Results 1-20 of 29 for terrorism speaker:Baroness Tonge

EU: Gaza and the West Bank (13 Oct 2008)

Baroness Tonge: My Lords, I first express my disgust that this House spent three and a half hours discussing one amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill and yet we have one dinner hour only to discuss a problem that lies at the very roots of terrorism itself. A recent report from the UN rapporteur on human rights said that settlement expansion, the wall, checkpoints and military areas have rendered 40 per...

Israel and Palestine: Negotiations (2 Jul 2008)

Baroness Tonge: ...to obey UN resolutions, and especially to start dismantling the settlements 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...

Bangladesh: Refugees (2 Jun 2008)

Baroness Tonge: ...because they are not citizens of Bangladesh. I really became interested in this group of people, and became a working trustee of the Dhaka Initiative, because of my interest in the causes of terrorism. All the ingredients are there in these camps: poverty, no education, no future, overcrowding, no status for the people, and a high proportion of young, volatile men in the population with...

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: My Lords, I have been horrified recently by what seems to be a concerted attempt by the Government and their appointees to ratchet up once more the fear of terrorism among the people of this country. In particular, the police are calling for a longer period of detention without trial, without presenting any evidence as to why this is necessary. At the same time, unaccountably, the...

Palestine: Occupied Territories (3 Jul 2007)

Baroness Tonge: ...tragedy in brief—I do not know if you are familiar with them. However much some people like to deny the fact, the injustice which is Palestine is one of the major causes of the rise of terrorism in this world. Ever since 1948, Palestine has been used as a battle cry and a propaganda weapon for Islamists worldwide. I have witnessed this in some African countries and, more recently, in...

Middle East and Afghanistan (5 Dec 2006)

Baroness Tonge: ...recently wrote that, "the Arab-Israeli conflict has ceased being a local, or even a regional concern. It is an international one, with obvious ripple effects in the rise of Islamic militancy and terrorism". In my own limited experience, in places as far away as Sudan and Bangladesh, I have heard politicians and ordinary citizens link the Palestinian cause to terrorism—and, indeed, to...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Palestine: Aid (19 Jul 2006)

Baroness Tonge: ...what advice they have given to United Kingdom charities working in Palestine regarding the disbursementof aid to organisations and individuals in that country following the United States Treasury's terrorism sanction regulations.

Mental Health Bill: Race Equality Impact Assessment (19 Jan 2006)

Baroness Tonge: ...it is being proposed in the new Bill that the police will be able to enter people's homes without a warrant and take them away for treatment. With alarm bells ringing in my ears about the draconian Terrorism Bill and the disproportionate impact it will have on ethnic minorities, does the Minister share my concern about the direction in which the Government are taking us?

European Union (3 Feb 2005)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...comments on the prospects for the European Union, the Foreign Secretary made no mention at all of the middle east peace process. Does he agree that peace in the middle east is crucial to the war on terrorism and the future prospects for peace in the world? Will he clarify what the EU is going to do this year to put pressure on Israel, in particular, to move the peace process forward?

Defence (21 Oct 2004)

Dr Jenny Tonge: Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the things that we can do to fight terrorism in the world is to make progress in the middle east peace process?

Darfur (Sudan) (9 Jun 2004)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...are the least of our problems." Who has been considering that while the peace process has been going on? The human rights record of the Government of Sudan is appalling. They react to many things with state terrorism. That is a rather difficult subject sometimes because we have good friends among the great and famous democracies of the world who also employ state terrorism at times. We...

Iraq (17 May 2004)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...on the faces of the Sudanese delegates. It is difficult to claim the moral high ground when such things have been going on in Iraq. We were also told that somehow Iraq had a connection with world terror and Osama bin Laden, but since the invasion of Iraq world terrorism has increased. The supporters of Osama bin Laden, who had no previous connection with that country, are now in there. We...

Iraq (17 May 2004)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...weapons of mass destruction by the Government, that at the very least Britain has colluded with human rights abuses in Iraq, and that we have endangered the safety of British citizens by increasing terrorism. The Government should be ashamed of their record in the past year, and if they have no shame, I am ashamed on their behalf—truly ashamed. The Prime Minister could save his soul....

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Bali (19 Apr 2004)

Dr Jenny Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the Indonesian authorities regarding terrorism in Bali.

Role of the United Nations in Iraq (10 Sep 2003)

Dr Jenny Tonge: .... However, recent events in respect of the middle east road map lead me to believe that stability has been affected. I shall comment on that in more detail later. The position in Iraq has increased terrorism and the risk of it, not decreased it. It is no accident that we have held two debates in two days on Iraq. It reflects the fact that the Opposition and the British people no longer...

Fair Trade (25 Jun 2003)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...to eat, while children all over the world die of starvation and disease. We must never forget them when we discuss debt relief and trade issues. If we do, poverty and despair will lead to war and terrorism, as the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Ms King) and I saw vividly a couple of weeks ago, and more despair—a vicious circle which, as we have seen in recent years, spills...

Iraq (3 Feb 2003)

Dr Jenny Tonge: If the Prime Minister accepts that the situation in the middle east is one of the prime causes of terrorism in the world today, will he explain, clearly and concisely, how a war with Iraq will fight terrorism and help the middle east process that he is currently pursuing?

Climate Change and Sustainable Development (5 Dec 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...of the reproductive rights programmes. What that country is doing is astounding. It is pulling out of international treaties all over the place. Does it really believe that that is the way to fight the terror? We must understand that developing countries need energy as much as we do. The only way for them to get the things that they need so that they can have enough food to feed their...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...ever. The Palestinians have no hope and Israel is seen as the United States in the middle east. More unfinished business is sowing the seeds of, and continuing to fuel, Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. The Government are strangely silent on the middle east—more unfinished business. For many people, the Balkans are a distant memory, but it is still a very unstable region. Tens of...