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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Meale (Labour), on Tuesday, 13 September 2016, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 36 members in total.


ISLAMIC STATE/DAESH - GENOCIDE

That this House recalls that on 20 April 2016 the House voted 278-0 in favour of declaring the actions of Islamic State/DAESH as genocide; notes that since that time that organisation has continued its appalling and systematic extermination of minority groups across Syria and Iraq; is dismayed that since that vote the Government has taken no action to bring this matter before the United Nations Security Council with the intentions of authorising the International Criminal Court to take an official determination on those crimes under the terms of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; and calls on the Government to immediately set in motion this process so that lives can be saved and such practices stopped in the immediate future.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
444 
Session
2016-17
Other sponsors
Mark Durkan
Jim Shannon
Danny Kinahan
Martyn Day
Gavin Robinson
Subjects
Death Discrimination Ethnic groups Racial discrimination Terrorism Religion Middle East
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk