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UK Government Accused of Playing ‘Parliamentary Skullduggery’ to Block Genocide Amendment Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called the move a “sad tragedy.” “The sad tragedy is that the Government has so engineered it that tomorrow the democratically elected [House of Commons] will not be able to vote on Lord Alton’s #GenocideAmendment which passed in the [House of Lords] with a majority of 171,” Duncan Smith wrote on Twitter on Monday. The sad tragedy is that ...

Britain has an obligation to stand up for the Uighur people and all tyrannical governments

TORY MPs will lead a renewed push to ban trade deals with countries which are guilty of genocide in a major vote on Tuesday.

UK Genocide Amendment Narrowly Defeated in House of Commons An amendment giving UK courts power to revoke trade deals with genocidal countries has been narrowly defeated on Tuesday in the House of Commons despite a Tory rebellion. The genocide amendment, tabled by Lord Alton of Liverpool, nullifies trade arrangements made under Trade Bill 2019-21 if the High Court of England and Wales makes a preliminary determination that the proposed trade partner has perpetrated genocide. The amendment wa...

Uyghur Repression: UK’s Johnson Says Genocide Attribution ‘Judicial Matter’ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday deflected criticisms of his government’s stance on the plight of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority and said the attribution of genocide is “a judicial matter.” On Tuesday, Johnson’s government instructed lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party to vote down an amendment to the Trade Bill that would have given UK courts power to revoke trade deals with co...

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Published on 17 December 2020 Save Darfur activists from Orange County. Credit: Genocide Intervention Network (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The roundtable, which included parliamentarians, civil servants, researchers and NGO representatives, heard from the following speakers: Archbishop Angaelos, Founder and Director of Refcemi Professor Mohammed Ihsan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and former senior official with the Iraqi Government Dr Enve...