Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ann Clwyd (Labour), on Tuesday, 2 September 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 40 members in total.

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TREATMENT OF IRAQI MINORITIES BY THE ISLAMIC STATE

That this House is extremely concerned about the genocidal campaign being waged against minorities in Iraq by the Islamic State (IS) and notes with alarm the evidence recently collected by Amnesty International about IS's brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims that has turned the area into blood-soaked killing fields; is shocked by the barbaric treatment of Yazidi and other ethnic and religious minority women kidnapped by IS, particularly reports of women being reportedly gang-raped and sold into sexual slavery; calls on the Government and the international community to take further measures to help secure the release of those held by IS and to assist those at imminent risk of being captured and those facing extreme hardship in refugee camps in Iraq and Syria, including offering to resettle the most vulnerable; and further calls on the Government and the international community to assist in collecting and preserving evidence of these atrocities so that the perpetrators can ultimately be brought to justice.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

308 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Alasdair McDonnell

Ronnie Campbell

Jim Dowd

Mark Durkan

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

Subjects

Human rights Iraq Ethnic groups

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk