Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which women’s organisations from Burma have been invited to the global summit on sexual violence in conflict being held in London in June 2014.

Mr Hugo Swire

Women’s organisation representatives from the Karen Women’s Action Group, the Gender Equality Network and the Women’s League of Burma have all been invited and are attending the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. In addition, faith leaders and other civil society activists are attending as part of a Burmese civil society delegation. I will be hosting this delegation in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 10 June.