International Campaign To End Genocide

EDM number 1657 in 2002-03, proposed by Karen Buck on 09/09/2003.

That this House supports the work of the International Campaign to End Genocide, a worldwide coalition of National Genocide Organisations, launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace, in May 1999, in its objective of having the United Nations commemorate the Rwandan genocide on its tenth anniversary on 7th April, 2004; calls upon Her Majesty's Government to encourage the United Nations Secretary General to use that occasion to announce the establishment of a United Nations Genocide Prevention Focal Point located at United Nations Headquarters, to assess and disseminate information on serious risks of genocide, issue early warnings and recommendations for prevention and help prevent genocide from secretly unfolding; and supports the work of the International Campaign to End Genocide in showing that Rwanda's suffering had not been in vain, and that lessons had been learned in the last 10 years, thereby restoring faith in the commitment of the international community to the Preamble of the United Nations Charter and bringing confidence to those whose faith in international law has been shaken.

This motion has been signed by a total of 89 MPs.