Question follow-through · 51337

Yazidis: Children and Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) locate and (b) free enslaved Yazidi (i) women and (ii) children.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 12 May 2025
Target answer date: 14 May 2025
Answer: 2 Jun 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) locate and (b) free enslaved Yazidi (i) women and (ii) children.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The UK continues to take a survivor-centred approach to support individuals who have experienced or are at risk of conflict related sexual violence, modern slavery and human trafficking.Our development programming has bolstered the authorities' and civil ...

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