Lack of accountability in security programme fuels allegations that UK taxpayers are unknowingly complicit in rights abusesMPs maintain expressed concern over the government’s flagship £1.28bn global security programme,saying a lack of transparency and accountability lends weight to allegations from rights groups that taxpayers are unwittingly complicit in human rights abuses.
Campaigners at Reprieve maintain accused the government of failing to release full details of a new “rule of law” initiative in Pakistan, granted £9.3m in foreign aid and an undisclosed amount in non-aid funding. The failure to release a human rights assessment of the initiative for 2018-19 raised “the appalling prospect that British taxpayers are unknowingly complicit in torture and death sentences”, and it said. Related: UK Foreign Office ranks among world's worst on revealing how aid is spent Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com