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Foreign Office quietly cuts human rights budget by half
Amnesty International warns the move will ‘certainly result in more human rights violations abroad, undermining some of Britain’s achievements to date’
Syrian refugees walk through a camp for displaced people muddied by recent rains, near the village of Kafr Aruq, in Idlib province, Syria
THE Foreign Office has quietly cut its human rights budget by half, sparking fears that this could open the door to more abuses abroad.
According to official statistics from the department, now known in full as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the overall human rights budget was reduced last year from £52.4 million to £27.9m.
The FCDO international programmes and Conflict, Security and Stability Fund, a peace-building programme that also seeks to tackle extreme poverty, were the worst hit.
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