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En réponse au courrier que les co-présidents 🇫🇷 #IPAC lui avaient adressé, @JY_LeDrian rappelle que les intimidations à l'encontre de l'Australie soulignent la nécessité d'assurer «un meilleur encadrement des pratiques commerciales déloyales» de la 🇨🇳
@iflorennes92 @AndreGattolin
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Grateful to @GarnettGenuis who has secured an official parliamentary hearing into gross human rights abuses of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang - as a follow up action to #IPAC commitments made in June. #StandTogether twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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"Talking about crimes against humanity no longer does justice to the gravity and scale of human rights abuses against Uyghurs."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEP @EnginEroglu_FW speaks to Formiche as the Italian parliament debates a #UyghurGenocide motion.
formiche.net/2021/04/eroglu…
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Led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 Co-Chairs @LucioMalan & @rampi Italian MPs & MEPs strongly denounce Chinese sanctions imposed on colleagues.
“Intimidating measures hold no place in a global rule-of-law based order. We will not be silenced and stand firmly with our colleagues for human rights.”
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"This is another example of the Chinese state denying genocide, despite it being glaringly obvious that the Chinese Communist Party are orchestrating the systematic eradication of the Uyghur."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @imranahmadkhan MP questions UK Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP. twitter.com/imranahmadkhan…
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"Instead of a beacon of light and hope, today we have gone into the dark corridors of procedural purdah."
#IPAC UK co-chair @MPIainDS on government moves to block a vote on the IPAC backed #GenocideAmendment to the Trade Bill.
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Czech parliament adopts a resolution labelling China and Russia as "threats to national security".
A motion led by #IPAC 🇨🇿 co-chair Sen. @PavelFischer will exclude Chinese state backed firms from taking part in Czechia's nuclear power expansion.
english.radio.cz/nuclear-option…
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Growing calls for Australia to impose diplomatic boycott on 2022 Beijing Olympics | SBS News
Coverage of #IPAC actions across 11 parliaments calling for leaders to decline invitations to attend the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
sbs.com.au/news/growing-c…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Louisa Wall MP calls for New Zealand to stage a diplomatic boycott of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
Wall: International Olympics Committee cannot "turn a blind eye to industrial scale human rights abuses."
newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
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BREAKING: #IPAC 🇬🇧 members call on UK PM @BorisJohnson to lead action on modern slavery in global supply chains ahead of #G7Summit.
The signatories call for the UK to blacklist firms failing to prove supply chains in the Xinjiang region are free from Uyghur forced labour.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives evidence to the Belgian Parliament on human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
Baroness Kennedy calls on the Belgian Parliament to recognise Uyghurs as victims of a state perpetrated Genocide. twitter.com/SamuelCogolati…
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BREAKING: IPAC 🇬🇧 #GenocideAmendment narrowly defeated by 319 votes to 308.
#IPAC members from all parties will now work to bring a revised amendment to be re-tabled in the House or Lords.
Full statement 👉ipac.global/uk-government-…
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"We need to show the same resolve against Beijing as we have mustered against Moscow’s many crimes"
#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS writes in the @Telegraph:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/2…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chair Rep. Gen Nakatani calls for Japan to ratify the Genocide Convention and implement a Magnitsky-style targeted sanctions regime as part of a renewed "human rights diplomacy".
axios.com/china-united-s…
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"If Lithuania dares to stand up for our common democratic values even when dictatorships threaten and hate, we should be able to do the same."
#IPAC 🇸🇪 co-chair @JoarForssell calls for Sweden to deepen its diplomatic cooperation with Taiwan.
expressen.se/debatt/sta-upp…
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EU puts massive China investment deal on hold | Radio France Internationale
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇩🇪 co-chair @MargareteBause.
rfi.fr/en/internation…
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‘There’s a duty to confront evil’: the Irish politicians standing up to the Chinese Communist Party | Independent
Featuring interviews with #IPAC 🇮🇪 members @barrymward @malcolmbyrne @SenatorMcDowell @MlMcNamaraTD on the launch of IPAC Ireland.
independent.ie/world-news/asi…
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#BREAKING: Australia passes Magnitsky-style sanctions legislation.
The law allows for travel bans and asset freezes on abusers of human rights globally.
Congratulations to #IPAC 🇦🇺 members @SenPaterson @kimbakit @kevinandrewsmp and others for leading the campaign 👏👏 twitter.com/kimbakit/statu…
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#IPAC is calling for independent investigations into alleged mass atrocity crimes in Xinjiang. Thank you @GarnettGenuis @IrwinCotler and other IPAC members for your hard work on this 👏 twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima echoes IPAC calls for legal investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity after reports document state-run schemes to forcibly uproot and assimilate Uyghurs and other minority groups in the Xinjiang region.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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UK MPs call for more sanctions as report reveals China's 'cultural erasure' strategies in Tibet | The Telegraph
Coverage of #IPAC open letter led by @timloughton MP calling for action on Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in Tibet.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/2…
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"Short of their proposed guided tour of the concentration camps, what evidence would they consider sufficient to recognise this genocide?"
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP urges the Canadian government to label China's treatment of Uyghurs as "genocide". twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP speaks at a UK Parliament debate commemorating #HolocaustRemembranceDay citing concerns of alleged genocide against #Uyghurs raised by Board of Deputies of British Jews.
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#IPAC member and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet @timloughton calls for reciprocal access to Tibet.
While Chinese officials enjoy broad access to the UK, British and international diplomats have been denied access to Tibet for years.