British lawmakers approve motion saying China s policies against Uyghurs amount to genocide theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LONDON British lawmakers on Thursday approved a parliamentary motion declaring that China s policies against its Uyghur minority population in the far western Xinjiang region amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. The motion is non-binding and does not compel the British government to act. But it is another move signalling the growing outcry among U.K. politicians over alleged human rights abuses in China. The motion was moved by Conservative lawmaker Nus Ghani, one of five British lawmakers recently sanctioned by China for criticizing its treatment of the Uyghurs. “There is a misunderstanding that genocide is just one act - mass killing. That is false,” she said, adding that all the criteria of genocide - an intention to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group - “are evidenced as taking place in Xinjiang.”
Where the £4bn cuts in UK foreign aid might fall theweek.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theweek.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bamboozled by Line Of Duty? All that AFO, ARU and UCO gobbledegook? Try sitting thought the IDC (International Development Committee) rabbiting on all morning. It d make your brain bubble.
For two hours yesterday, the committee grilled Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. For large swathes of their session, Raab and the committee may as well have been speaking in tongues. So many abbreviations were tossed around, it felt like being assaulted by the creators of Scrabble.
Some of the acronyms I was familiar with, others I had to look up. Several, I m almost embarrassed to admit, remain unsolved mysteries. A SETO anyone? An MDC? How about a DHC? Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
Britain Slashes Aid to China by 95 Percent theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.