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Caste Discrimination And Dalit Peoples

EDM number 648 in 2005-06, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 20/07/2005.

That this House welcomes the three-year study on caste discrimination agreed by the UN Human Rights Commission in April; notes the concerns expressed in recent International Development Committee and Department for International Development (DFID) Reports and the continuing threats and violence against Dalits resisting caste discrimination; urges the Foreign Office and DFID actively to support the UN study, including financially if necessary, and to work vigorously in the EU and beyond to end discrimination by work and descent; and further urges the Department of Trade and Industry to encourage all UK companies operating in India to adopt the Ambedkar Employment Principles aimed at overcoming such discrimination in India and elsewhere.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn20/07/2005Islington NorthLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley21/07/2005Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
David Drew21/07/2005StroudLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson21/07/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
Rudi Vis21/07/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Sandra Gidley21/07/2005RomseyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Paul Holmes21/07/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/07/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
Rob Marris21/07/2005Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
George Galloway10/10/2005Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Ann Cryer10/10/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Paul Keetch10/10/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn10/10/2005JarrowLabourSigned
Bob Spink10/10/2005Castle PointConservativeSigned
John Randall11/10/2005UxbridgeConservativeSigned
John McDonnell11/10/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock11/10/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil11/10/2005Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Martin Caton12/10/2005GowerLabourSigned
Tom Brake13/10/2005Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey18/10/2005North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lady Hermon18/10/2005North DownUUPSigned
John Barrett24/10/2005Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Selous23/11/2005South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Diane Abbott24/11/2005Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty14/12/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Kate Hoey13/02/2006VauxhallLabourSigned

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