COP28 and human rights

That this House is concerned that the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) will be held in the United Arab Emirates amid ongoing repression and human rights violations, and risks being used to greenwash and distract from the UAE’s appalling human rights records; notes the ongoing detention of 60 members of Emirati Civil Society sentenced in a mass trial over a decade ago; condemns the ongoing detention of Emirati blogger and human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, who is being held in prolonged solitary confinement and denied adequate medical care, in violation of international human rights law and putting his life at risk; urges the Government to leverage its close relationship with the UAE to publicly and privately urge the UAE to take concrete steps to improve its human rights record in the lead up to the COP-28 summit; and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ahmed Mansoor.