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Kalahari Bushmen Court Victory

EDM number 757 in 2006-07, proposed by Martin Horwood on 26/01/2007.

That this House warmly welcomes the decision of the Botswana High Court of 13th December 2006, which ruled that the Botswana government's eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their ancestral land inside the Kalahari Game Reserve was `unlawful and unconstitutional'; congratulates the Bushmen on their historic court victory, which gives them the right to hunt and gather in the reserve; notes the importance of the decision for indigenous peoples everywhere in the world; and hopes that the Botswana authorities will implement the court's decision promptly and in full.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Martin Horwood26/01/2007CheltenhamLiberal DemocratProposed
Diane Abbott26/01/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSeconded
Andrew George26/01/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Drew26/01/2007StroudLabourSeconded
John Bercow26/01/2007BuckinghamConservativeSeconded
Tim Farron26/01/2007Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Paul Holmes29/01/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Evans29/01/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock29/01/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley29/01/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Alan Meale30/01/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Stephen Williams30/01/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech30/01/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore30/01/2007HendonLabourSigned
John Cummings30/01/2007EasingtonLabourSigned
Derek Conway30/01/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Martin Caton30/01/2007GowerLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden30/01/2007Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones30/01/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins30/01/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Willie Rennie31/01/2007Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Madeleine Moon31/01/2007BridgendLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn31/01/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle31/01/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson31/01/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz31/01/2007Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Evan Harris01/02/2007Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn01/02/2007JarrowLabourSigned
Vincent Cable01/02/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies01/02/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Ann Cryer02/02/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Ann Winterton05/02/2007CongletonConservativeSigned
Betty Williams05/02/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis05/02/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell05/02/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins06/02/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell06/02/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Janet Dean07/02/2007BurtonLabourSigned
John Pugh08/02/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross19/02/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson19/02/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming27/02/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell07/03/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Paul Rowen18/04/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Begg17/05/2007Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned

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