Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Anderson (Labour), on Tuesday, 2 September 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 23 members in total.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST GENOCIDE

That this House welcomes the powerful appeal by the UK Kurdish Genocide Task Force, a group that includes legal and academic experts and hon. Members, for signatories to the 1948 Genocide Convention and Member States of the United Nations to act to end, prosecute and punish acts of genocide and crimes against humanity against Yezidi Kurds, Assyrian Christians, Shabaks and Kakayis committed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS); endorses the need for a fact-finding commission of experts to collect eye-witness evidence and prepare a timely record to establish whether the prima facie evidence justifies the international recognition of the above-mentioned acts as genocide and/or crimes against humanity and prosecution of those responsible; notes that the Kurdistan Regional Government is willing to share all evidence in its possession and to provide all assistance within its capability to such a fact-finding commission; believes that the United Nations Security Council should pass a resolution referring the acts committed by ISIS as a new situation to the International Criminal Court; further notes that the international law principle of the Responsibility to Protect obliges individual states and the international community to take effective measures to prevent the commission of genocide and crimes against humanity, if necessary by appropriate military intervention or support of the local forces combating ISIS; and urges the Government to join with others in pursuing these matters with alacrity.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

310 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Ronnie Campbell

Jim Dowd

Mike Gapes

Fabian Hamilton

Mary Glindon

Subjects

Human rights Iraq Ethnic groups Politics and government Middle East

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk