A parliamentary body with responsibility for overseeing UK foreign affairs today gave damning criticism of the UK government's approach to addressing human rights in Tibet and China.

The Committee stated that "We find it difficult to support the Government’s approach to human rights engagement with China in the continuing absence of any evidence that it is yielding results, and when the human rights situation in China appears to be deteriorating. " The Committee also recommended that the government "engages in more explicit, hard-hitting and consistent public criticisms of human rights abuses in China".

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee releases a human rights report annually, but todays report is the first since the Coalition government came into power in 2010.

To read the report in full please click here.

To urge the government to take a stronger stance on human rights in Tibet and China click here.