ABOUT

Welcome to the website of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission is a body established to highlight international human rights concerns, and to inform, advise and develop the party’s foreign policy by making human rights a priority. Freedom and human dignity should be at the heart of foreign policy.

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission is a body established to highlight international human rights concerns, and to inform, advise and develop the party’s foreign policy by making human rights a priority. Freedom and human dignity should be at the heart of foreign policy.

The Conservative Human Rights Commission provides a forum for Party members and sup-porters with an interest in promoting human rights throughout the world.
The Commission has produced a number of reports, including ‘The Female Face of Afghani-stan’, ‘Supporting Women Human Rights Defenders’ and ‘Child Soldiers; Progress but too little’.

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission was set up by the Shadow Foreign Secre-tary in 2005 with Gary Streeter MP as founding Chairman. Since its creation the Commis-sion’s chairmen have included Stephen Crabb MP and Tony Baldry MP, and most recently Robert Buckland MP. Commissioners also include MP’s Mark Pritchard, Fiona Bruce, Jere-my Lefroy, Nicola Blackwood and Sajid Javid, human rights activist and writer Benedict Rogers, and Heather Blake. In December 2020, Fiona Bruce MP was appointed as the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief. On that appointment Fiona Bruce MP stepped down as Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission holds regular hearings on countries and themes, publishes updates drawn from different human rights organisations and media sources, organises speaker meetings, press conferences and events, initiate Parliamentary Questions, Early Day Motions and debates in Parliament. The commission also publishes an Annual Report on Human Rights and develops policy proposals for adoption by the Government.