UK PARLIAMENT DECLARES GENOCIDE IN CHINA

Subject : International Relations

Context : UK Parliament unanimously declares the Chinese government is committing a Genocide against Uyghurs in historic first.

Concept :

The House of Commons has unanimously declared that Uyghurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang region are victims of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the first time a motion declaring genocide has been passed unopposed in the British parliament.
The UK joins the US, Canada and the Netherlands in having made formal declarations of a genocide taking place against Uyghurs.
The backbench business debate motion was led by Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani, a member of the cross-party Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), and received backing from all major opposition parties.
The motion calls on the UK government to fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention and to use “all relevant instruments of international law” to bring the abuses against Uyghurs to an end.

Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) is an international, cross-party alliance of parliamentarians from democratic countries focused on relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and specifically, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
It was established on June 4, 2020, on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
The alliance comprises over 100 MPs from the world’s democratic legislatures, Ireland becoming the 20th national to join the alliance in February 2021.
Each legislature represented takes turns to chair the alliance on a rotating basis. Its purpose is to create a coordinated response to China on global trade, security and human rights.