Tag: Lord Alton of Liverpool

UK Peers Pass Lord Alton’s Genocide Amendment for Third Time

In a final attempt to give legal backing to the recognition of state genocide in relation to trade, the UK’s House of Lords on Tuesday passed a “genocide amendment” for the third time. The amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill, proposed by Lord Alton of Liverpool, seeks to establish an ad-hoc Parliamentary Judicial Committee (PJC) that…


Modified Genocide Amendment Backed by Two-Thirds of Peers, to Go Back to Commons

An amendment aiming to stop and prevent the UK from doing bilateral trade with genocidal countries passed in the House of Lords on Tuesday by a two-thirds majority despite the Conservative government’s objection. A previous version of the amendment was passed on Dec. 7 by 287 votes to 161, before it was narrowly defeated in…