Hilary Benn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department plans to use the criteria for identifying human rights countries of concern first published in the 2012 annual human rights and democracy report in the next edition of that report.

Mr Philip Hammond

For the 2015 Annual Human Rights Report, the FCO is applying the following criteria in identifying human rights priority countries:
• the human rights situation in the country
• evidence of a trajectory of change
• the extent of the FCO’s work on human rights in that country.