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Whips accused of 'bullying' rebels over anti-genocide Trade Bill amendment | the Telegraph
UK Government moves to block cross-party #GenocideAmendment
to Trade Bill proposed by #IPAC members.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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"We need a new effort to prod China into taking a different approach.”
#IPAC advisor @AkiraIgata on proposals led by the Japan Parliamentary Alliance on China to pass a Japanese Magnitsky human rights sanctions regime.
asahi.com/sp/ajw/article…
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“All five categories of genocide behaviour, according to the Genocide Convention, are already in play in Xinjiang province."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant MP urges the British Olympics Association to call for a #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics venue change.
theguardian.com/world/2021/feb…
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#IPAC co-chair 🇪🇺 Lexmann warns the EU against ignoring the human rights implications of the EU-China #CAI investment deal:
"The EU cannot reward bad behaviour, nor can we afford to compartmentalise our policies and instruments."
neweurope.eu/article/europe…
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Johnson faces Commons defeat as rebels stand against China’s ‘genocide’ | Sunday Times
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL all-party amendment to the Trade Bill will be debated in the UK Parliament this week.
thetimes.co.uk/article/johnso…
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A resolution proposed by #IPAC 🇱🇹 co-chair @DSakaliene calling for international legal investigations into alleged crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang passes the Lithuanian Seimas National Security and Defence and Foreign Affairs Committees.
15min.lt/naujiena/aktua…
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP questions Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in a virtual meeting:
👉 Should your government be sanctioned under the EU's human rights sanctions regime?
👉 Why are your police targeting elected Danish Lawmakers on false charges? twitter.com/bueti/status/1…
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Australian politicians condemn “profoundly distressing” Uyghur detention camps in China | the Market Herald
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chairs Sen. @kimbakit and @SenPaterson.
themarketherald.com.au/australian-pol…
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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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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @JanetDaby MP on UK government inaction after reports of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Xinjiang prison camps:
"What exactly are they waiting for China to do before they take action?" twitter.com/JanetDaby/stat…
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China's punitive sanctions lead to Australian wine producers finding new markets.
Last year #IPAC urged consumers to buy Australian wine in #SolidarityWithAustralia
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP presents survivor's testimony of torture and rape in Xinjiang prison camps to the UK Parliament.
Ghani calls for no further deepening of ties with the Chinese government until a full judicial inquiry into crimes against Uyghurs has been concluded.
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Some witnesses too afraid of Chinese authorities to give evidence at Australian inquiry | the Guardian
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair Sen. @kimbakit highlights intimidation from the Chinese Communist Party experienced by Australian Chinese and other diasporic groups.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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先日BBCで報道されたウイグル自治区における人権弾圧の苛烈な実態。この報道を契機に、#IPAC として、国連主導の法的調査と緊急の集団政治行動を求める声明を出しました。賛同してくださったIPAC加盟の日本の国会議員はこちら↓ twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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#GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill tabled by #IPAC member @DavidAltonHL defeats government in the Lords.
IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair Baroness Kennedy: the amendment will "change the ecology of law by making genocide have serious meaning in our contemporary world”.
theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/0…
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“The weight of evidence steadily coming out of the region leaves no room for doubt as to the oppression Uighurs and other ethnic minorities are living under”
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @kimbakit on reports of systemic torture and rape in Xinjiang prison camps.
smh.com.au/world/asia/hor…
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#JPAC が連携している #IPAC が「新疆ウイグル自治区の強制収容所における拷問及びレイプの報道に関する声明」を公表しました。IPACに参加している日本からの賛同議員はこちら。
声明の元となったBBCの報道
bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world… twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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"No one can seriously believe that the Chinese Communist Party is about to refer itself to the International Criminal Court for examination of potential genocide."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL explains why the all-party #GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill is needed.
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"If the UK does not stand up for victims of genocide, then I want to know what it will ever stand up for again."
#IPAC co-chair @MPIainDS writes in the @SundayGuardian
sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/uk-not…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani launch cross-party parliamentary group to establish a Japanese "Magnitsky Act" to sanction individuals and organisations involved in human rights abuses.
mainichi.jp/english/articl…
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#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Simon O'Connor MP criticises NZ-China trade deal as a "slap in the face" for Australia as it faces threats from Beijing.
"It suits the CCP to have a trade deal with New Zealand right now in order to increase pressure on Australia."
stuff.co.nz/national/polit…
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On the #IPAC Co-Chairs call last night:
👉Legislators from 14 parliaments on 4 continents
👉Former PM of Denmark and @NATO Sec Gen @AndersFoghR
👉The person who saw through the recent US Genocide determination @KelleyCurrie
#StandTogether
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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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"Canada must recognise and respond to this genocide."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MPs cites backing from Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and fellow IPAC co-chair @IrwinCotler in calling on Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau to recognise genocide against Uyghurs. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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#IPAC member @Siobhain_Mc MP calls on UK financial regulators to exert influence on banks and financial institutions acting as a "prop" to totalitarian regimes.
McDonagh raises the case of Hong Kong pro-democrat activist @tedhuichifung, whose accounts have been frozen by @HSBC. twitter.com/Siobhain_Mc/st…