It’s been a week since I was given my Council badge and devices. So far, I’ve filed a Member’s Enquiry on behalf of a disabled resident whose housing application was incorrectly rejected; visited an elderly resident to measure her neighbour’s … Continue reading Our messaging on Palestine did not cut through
Water is already scarce
in Jordan, with upstream
neighbours, a burgeoning
refugee population and
agriculture taking their toll Continue reading An EU toolbox to deal with the climate-migration-security-nexus- the case of Jordan
Muslim vote: Political chat ahead of the election 10 December, 2019 | BBC Stories Continue reading Interview with BBC Stories on being Muslim and political
With one hand, our government gives, and the other, it takes. The Liberal Democrats’ manifesto calls for a presumption of denial of arms exports to human rights priority countries; British arms sales to Saudi Arabia contributed to the killing of … Continue reading Interview on BBC Asian Network on foreign policy
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Tue 26th November 2019 – 8:35 am What besides leading the campaign against Brexit have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain? John Stuart Mill, a Liberal MP, was the second of his House to call for women’s … Continue reading What have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain?
Speaking at the Liberal Democrats conference, Bournemouth 2019. We’ve destroyed our forests and developed; if we want to stop others from doing the same, we need to compensate them. Continue reading BBC: Imad Ahmed on getting domestic buy-in to preserve rainforests
InterLib | September 2019 Imaduddin Ahmed (800 word piece in the 2019 InterLib Kashmir pages, following the articles on Kashmir by Liberal Democrat MEPs Phil Bennion and Dinesh Dhamija) The 72 year history of Kashmir since the British Raj dissolved is fraught with unconfirmable contentions and theories and riddled by complex problems. For a start, the issue of self-determination of the people of the various parts of Kashmir under Pakistani, Indian and even Chinese administration is not straight-forward: self-determination by whom, given migrations since 1947? The wider stakes at play for the two nuclear powers in dispute over the region … Continue reading How British liberals should advocate for the human rights of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir (800 words)
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Fri 30th August 2019 | Lib Dem Voice This past month, the Government of India has escalated military presence in Jammu and Kashmir, already perhaps the densest in the world, enforced curfews, a media blackout, blocked all communications and arrested Kashmiri politicians without issuing warrants under a draconian law. Reports of torture of civilians are now coming through the BBC. This comes accompanying the Government of India’s attempt to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in violation of the conditions of it joining India after India became independent. Civilian casualties over the past 12 months were already at a decade … Continue reading How British liberals should advocate for the human rights of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir (500 words)
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Mon 19th August 2019 | Lib Dem Voice When as Home Secretary Sajid Javid attempted to strip British-born Shamima Begum of her citizenship, he highlighted how the Home Office has come to possess powers to revoke citizenship that … Continue reading The case for changing our laws on revoking citizenship
It is plausible that the arms trade could be a contributing factor to
the extent to which wars are waged and peacekeeping operations in which the MOD is engaged,
the extent to which refugees are created, move to the UK and then are sheltered in the UK,
the radicalisation of those who would harm Britain Continue reading Arms sales could cost the UK more than they earn
energy and a just transition 