Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mohammad Sarwar (Labour), on Tuesday, 4 July 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 97 members in total.

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POVERTY IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

That this House notes with grave concern the findings of a recent International Labour Organisation Report that four in 10 Palestinians have been living on the poverty line surviving on less that ??1.72 a day in 2005; acknowledges that the absolute number of poor rose from 600,000 in 1999 to 1.6 million in 2005 and that the barriers to mobility of persons, goods and services within the West Bank and between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have worsened in the latter half of 2005-06; recognises the need to work towards lifting these barriers and introducing a viable trade regime in the Palestinian Authority area to alleviate the prevailing social, economic and humanitarian crisis in the territories; and calls upon the Government to work towards ending deprivation and restrictions imposed upon Palestinians living in the occupied territories.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2498 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Michael Connarty

Shahid Malik

Andrew Love

Ann McKechin

Anne Moffat

Subjects

Poverty Palestine Occupied territories

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk