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Overseas Aid: General, Debate Briefings

The folder contains a Guardian Newspaper Clipping on debt burden and articles on trade, letters/correspondence, background briefings for the debate on International Development; Partnership for Economic Growth and Opportunity in Africa: an Oxfam response to the US Initiative; Background briefing for Parliamentary debate on International Development including Amnesty International and World Development Movement. World Development Movement papers and House of Commons oral debates and book extracts.

Peru

The folder contains the Peru Update papers, The Carter Centre Trip Reports, Peru Support Group papers, Comment report - Coca, Cocaine and the war on drugs, Amnesty International reports and papers, Peru background information papers, Profile Peru, Report of a Parliamentary Delegation to Peru, Sainsbury Magazine - Special Report: Zapallal, UN Human Rights Committee papers, Peru Support Group - The debt lottery: Peru, House of Commons written answers, 6 November 1996, HOC library - Multilateral Debt Initiative: Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and World debt tables.

It also includes contact details, articles, book extracts, EDMs, letters and correspondence.

Strategic Arms Export Controls

The folders contain materials on arms export controls. There are various newspaper clippings, articles, letters, correspondence, House of Commons/Lords written and oral debates, speeches, press releases, HOC Agenda/order of business, Background briefings, Joint Inquiries, White Paper, UK Campaign strategy papers, Ministry of Defence papers, The Export of Goods(Control) (Amendment No.2) Order papers, memorandums, submissions, a business card.

There are various reports and publications such as from Strategic Export Controls, DTI Export Controls, House of Commons Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committee, Session 1998-1999: Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls, NGOs', Labour Action for Peace, Working Group on Arms, World Development Movement, Greenpeace, Networker Newsletter and Labour Peace Action and British American Security Information Council

Chechnya

The folder contains Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights paper, various articles, forum on Chechnya, Amnesty International Press Releases, Human Rights Watch Field Update on Chechnya, Council of Europe Resolution 1240 and Conflict in the Chechen Republic: recent developments paper and Human Rights Watch memorandum

Arms Export Press

The folders contain various articles, newspaper clippings, briefings, Labour news releases, book extracts, HOC written answers : 1997- 1999, Fabian Society publications, CAAT papers, transcript of "File on 4", EDMs, Christian Socialist Movement Quarterly Magazine- Autumn 1996, Amnesty International papers, EU Code of Conduct on arms papers and publications, Democratic Socialism into the 21st Century papers, Photocopied SIPRI Yearbook 1995: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, Annual Report breakdown summary, Saferworld - South African Arms Procurement, Resource Pack: Countering the Arms Trade - Churches Count the Cost, The Ministry of Waste: A Catalogue of MoD Financial Incompetence - An Update, World Military Expenditure graph tables, Weapons Decisions: Proposals for an Informed Parliament , Responsibility in Arms Transfer Policy report, R.H. Tawney Annual Lecture and The Parliamentary Monitor- Information Digest

Files by Title - 2

The box contains folders and INDICT packs, covering general INDICT affairs and topics such as Iraq, Saddam Hussein, INDICT Paris Conference 2000, Kurd's and the Halabja 1988 massacre. There are various INDICT documents, including minutes, reports, letters, correspondence, business plans, and Booklet. There are also Iraq Updates' newsletters by Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and New Labor, press releases, articles, journal articles, written and typed notes on media rounds, media contact details, contact details, Parliamentary Questions, a Statement to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq, Speeches by Ann Clwyd, Robin Cook and French President Jacques Chirac, Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq Briefing and UN General Assembly - Human Rights questions.

War on Terror

The box contains folders focusing on War on Terror, Afghanistan, Detainees and Guantanamo Bay.
There are Parliamentary Questions, letters, articles, newspaper clippings, submissions, memorandums, notes, press releases, letters, Briefing notes, Edited Transcript of an Interview by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Transcripts of C4 News 21-01-02 and a Dimbleby interview, Speech by the RT Hon Robin Cook, , Fabian Society papers, Statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan, NGO papers, Afghanistan Crisis situation report: 05 Dec 2001, UN Press Briefing in Kabul: 05 Dec 2001, book extracts "Convention against Torture', Research Paper, CRS Report for Congress, Meeting documents with All Party group on Human Rights and Minister from the Embassy of the United States of America, House of Commons Standard Note - Al-Qaeda Prisoners and a Tribune magazine.

Files by Title and Numbered Files

The folders cover INDICT business and its' topics of interest. There are various INDICT reports, publications and papers, such as articles, press releases, correspondence, letters and papers to or about Dr. Chibli Mallat. There are other periodicals and publications from NGOs', The United Nations and European Parliament. Various Early Day Motions, White Order Paper, Parliamentary Questions, Parliamentary Labour Party Briefings, Foreign and Commonwealth Office papers and reports. Contracts of Employment, financial details/documents, congress/house of Representatives papers,The Companies Act of 1985 and 1989, Deed of Variation, Programmes such as The Middle East Institute and The Iraq Foundation event and Preparing for the International Criminal Court programme. There is a Media List, International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages paper and a business card.

India

The box contains International Development Committee Pakistan and India briefs, Status of Women in Orissa: A Compiled Report of 15 Districts, Amnesty International Report 1998 extract, article on The Lahore Declaration, National Audit Office - Bilateral Aid to India, Itinerary for the visiting British Parliamentary Team, A Brief Note on Rural Sanitation Programme and CDD-Watsan Strategy in the District of Ganjam, Orissa. Human Resource Development paper, Village Profile - Landabaunsa, Revised Detailed Programme, Brief on NGOs invited to the Dinner hosted by DHC on 25 February, West Bengal Sexual Health Project summary, IDC visit reports: Visit to the Sub-Continent - Briefing for India, Visit to Calcutta, An Oxfam Country Profile - India: Paths to Development, Calcutta Slum Improvement Project report, Articles, Magazines and Newspapers such as the Saturday Times - 27 February 1999, The Times of India - 27 February 1999, The New Indian Express - 24 February 1999, International, The News International: You - Volume 9, No 7, March 2 1999.

DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India reports

International Development Committee and Iraq

The box contains folders focusing on the Department of International Department and International Development Committee papers relating to Iraq. There are papers, submissions, memorandums, press notices, IDC Iraq evidence and a leaflet on Iraq, Iraq War, Afghanistan and Human Rights.

Subject Files - A

Labeled folders' beginning with A, covering topics related to Iraq, the Iraq War, the Kurd's, individual and Asylum cases, AIDS and prisons. There are various papers which include correspondence, documents, letters, an open letter about the the torture in Iraq, reports, Q&A material supplemental to a written ministerial statement, Parliamentary Questions, British Council Political Participation Fund: Grant Application Form, British-Iraq All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting minutes and Application forms for Cross-Party Groups and a table of projects undertaken.

General Files

There are an assortment of folders and papers covering a range of topics: Iraq Special Tribunal, detainees, Special Envoy documents, Afghanistan, INDICT papers. They contain various correspondence, a Script transcript, letters, speeches, memorandums, articles, reports, trip reports, leaflets, information sheets and periodicals such as Iraq Updates and Monitoring.

Subject Files W-Z

Labeled folders' beginning with W-Z. They cover topics like Iraq Welsh Guards, Wiki leaks, Iraq Women/women's conference in Kurdistan, Ukraine, witness protection, Paul Wolfowitz, female genital mutilation and Leyla Zana.
There are correspondence, articles, papers, reports, extracts, project bid form, agendas, statements and parliamentary questions within.

Subject Files B-C

Labeled folders' beginning with B and C. There are various reports and submissions such as from Non-Governmental Organisations, Council of European Nations and The Foreign and Commonwealth Office. There are press lines, correspondence, letters, meeting minutes, articles, newspaper clippings, documents, Parliamentary Questions, briefings, Early Day Motions, a written ministerial statement, Journal of Commonwealth history and a leaflet. There are various individual cases and asylum application cases with Human Rights Small Grants Fund: Grant Application Forms.

Burma

The folders contain various papers, documents and periodicals around Burma/Myanmar and issues such as the governments' actions. There are House of Commons oral and written Parliamentary questions, articles, newspaper clippings, press releases, statements, letters, correspondence, recommendations, Parliamentary Labour Party Briefs, Information document submission, meeting minutes, and a HOC Standard Note.

There are testimonies - 104th Conference of International Parliamentary Union, Members of Parliament Union: Burma on Grave Violations of the Human Rights- an Elected Representatives subjected to Detention, Imprisonment, Imprisonment and/or Forced Resignation (1991-2000) list, Members of Parliament of the 1990 Elections in Burma Update to the 103rd Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting, Joint Appeal to the International Community and a MP's elect believed to be held without charge lists/table.

Publications 2000

The bundle contains the following publications: Population Concern - Annual Review 2000
Global Cultural Diversity Congress 2000
White Paper on International Development - Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, December 2000
Water and Development in Southeastern Anatolia -Essays on the Ilisu Dam and GAP, February 2000
Oxford Research Group - Collective Security: A New Role in Britain, March 2000
Amnesty International - Saudi Arabia: A Secret State of Suffering, 2000
Aegis Briefing Paper - Genocide Prevention Research Initiative: a scientific approach to the study and prevention of genocide, April 2000
Overseas Development Institute- Annual Report 1999/2000
MAG - Angola
ActionAid - The Reality of Aid 2000
Invest, In Cambodia, 2013

Cambodia

The folders cover topics from the Khmer Rouge to Landmines. There are various articles, letters, correspondence, House of Common debates, news/press releases, Visit programmes, submissions,newspaper clippings, background briefs, and Early Day Motions.
There are various periodicals and publications, from organizations like Oxford, United Nations Association (UK), Amnesty International and Global Witness.They also include a bundle of The Cambodian Daily Newsletters, HOC Foreign Affairs Committee, Session 1986-87: South East Asia and Indo-China and Annual Reports.

There are also Britain/ Cambodia and Britain/Vietnam group meeting minutes, European Parliament Session Documents, mission report, talks, Cambodian Chronicles documents, European Union Observation Unit papers, a Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia pack and a Dissertation.

There is also a boarding pass, an Invitation, International Medical relief - Iraqi/Kurdish Refugees in South East Turkey and an extract of HOC oral debate regarding Brexit.