Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

HC Deb 23 March 1998 vol 309 c31W

Mr. Faber

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he has taken to promote the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. [35851]

Mr. Tony Lloyd

We support the activities of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and have helped to finance many of their projects, most recently a seminar on National Human Rights Institutions in the Commonwealth, in October 1997, which I addressed.