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Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Halabja and Kurdish Genocide in Iraq Shows We Must Move From 'Never Again' to 'Always Prevent'

John Slinger | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: No Fly Zone, Halabja, Genocide, Srebrenica, Darfur, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, Kurdistan, International Law, Iraq, Foreign Policy, Iraqi Kurdistan, Anfal, Bosnia, Human Rights, Security Council, Kurds, Cambodia, Responsibility to Protect, International Relations, Un, Rwanda, UK Politics News
John Slinger

While many of the world's governments want to prevent genocide, they almost never act to achieve this aim. This despite most being signatories to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide which is explicitly designed to compel them to do just that.

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More Than Words Required to Make Responsibility to Protect a Reality

John Slinger | Posted 08.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan, Tony Blair, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Genocide, Kurdistan, International Law, Responsibility to Protect, Iraq, Labour Party, UN Security Council, United Nations, UK Politics News
John Slinger

What is happening in Syria now shows the futility of the words we use to conduct international diplomacy...We in Labour must not hide behind a naïve belief that any western intervention is an imperialist plot.

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States 'Extinguishing' Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Davinder Kumar | Posted 08.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Women's Rights, Civil Liberties, Plan International, Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, Environment, Forests, Indigenous People, Davinder Kumar, Cameroon, The Philippines, Congo, Indonesia, UK News
Davinder Kumar

Globally, although the indigenous peoples represent only about 5 per cent of the world's population, they occupy one-fifth of entire earth's territory from the Arctic to the South Pacific. Despite their hold over vast swathes of land, indigenous peoples make up 15 per cent of the world's poor and one-third of the world's 900 million extremely poor rural people.

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Former Archbishop Condemns Same Sex Marriages As 'Political Power Grab'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Religion, Church, Human Rights, Gay Rights, Lord Carey, UK News, Church of England, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Same-Sex Marriages, Gay Couples, Archbishop of Canterbury, UK Politics News

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has voiced his opposition to plans to legalise same-sex marriages. In an article for the Daily Mail,...

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International Court To Decide Whether To Prosecute Kenyan Deputy PM Over Massacre

PA | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Kenya Politics, Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya Violence, UK World, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Kenya Elections, Kenyan Politics, Human Rights, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Kenya Killings, UK News

A decision by the International Criminal Court is due on Monday on whether six influential Kenyans accused of helping to orchestrate violence that kil...

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