Human Rights In Kazakhstan

EDM number 305 in 2008-09, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 16/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Human rights and International politics and government.

That this House notes with concern the findings of the Human Rights Watch report An Atmosphere of Quiet Repression, detailing the poor state of human rights in Kazakhstan; furthers notes that serious improvement should be expected for when Kazakhstan chairs the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2010; believes that too little progress has been made to improving the situation; and calls on the Government to put more pressure on the Kazakh government to rectify the poor regard for human rights in the country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.