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Rahima Mahmut was recognized at a Buckingham Palace reception for humanitarian activists in the UK.

A businessman behind a Glasgow restaurant accused of being a Chinese secret police station met with Boris Johnson at a Conservative party fundraiser…

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Monday that she has been "actively looking at" ways for the UK to deal with genocidal regimes.

Many women in Afghanistan are barred from holding public-sector roles and girls remain largely cut off from state secondary schooling

UK Government Has to Deal With Genocide Amendment ‘One Way or the Other’: Duncan Smith If the UK government wants its post-Brexit Trade Bill to become law, it has to deal with the genocide amendment “one way or the other,” former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said on Thursday. The genocide amendment aims to stop bilateral trade with genocidal countries, and is the last remaining obstacle to the Trade Bill becoming law. The amendment is stuck between the House of Lords, which support...

UK Should Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics Over Uyghur Genocide: Liberal Democrats Leader Britain should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because there is “overwhelming” evidence the Chinese regime is committing genocide against the Uyghur minority, the leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats has said. “The Liberal Democrats, like many other people, have seen the evidence coming out from Xinjiang in western China that the Chinese authorities are persecuting the Uyghurs who live ther...

UK Peers Pass Lord Alton’s Genocide Amendment for Third Time In a final attempt to give legal backing to the recognition of state genocide in relation to trade, the UK’s House of Lords on Tuesday passed a “genocide amendment” for the third time. The amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill, proposed by Lord Alton of Liverpool, seeks to establish an ad-hoc Parliamentary Judicial Committee (PJC) that could make a preliminary determination on whether a partner in a relevant bilater...

Legitimacy of Trading With Genocidal Countries Is the Battle of Our Times: Lord Alton Genocide amendment author confident House of Lords will send amendment back to Commons The legitimacy of trading with genocidal countries is the battle of our times, the UK’s Lord Alton of Liverpool has said, drawing parallels with the opium and slave trades in past centuries. Lord Alton is the author of an amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill often dubbed the “genocide amendment,” which, if ad...

Tory rebels have accused the government of using procedural games to prevent a vote on an attempt to outlaw trade deals with countries committing genocide.

UK Lawmakers to Fight for Genocide Amendment as Compromise Version Pushed Through The UK Parliament on Tuesday passed a compromise version of an amendment to its post-Brexit Trade Bill on curbing trade with genocidal countries. The amendment (pdf), proposed by Conservative MP Robert Neill and backed by the government, was put before MPs instead of Lord Alton’s original version, which won by a two-thirds majority in the House of Lords on Feb. 3. While the government argued that Neill’s amend...