Fleur Anderson MP, Chair of the Genocide Prevention detailed the fundamentals of what an #AtrocityPreventionStrategy should entail: 💭 Prevention-first thinking 👥 Networked analysis 🏛️ Institutionalisation 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 The development of resilient societies

My contribution to the House of Lords debate promoting the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on its 75th Anniversary #UNDHR75 In full: davidalton.net/2023/12/11/hou…

Thank you House of Commons Speaker Fleur Anderson MP Genocide Prevention James Smith Lord (Eric) Pickles Holocaust Memorial Day Trust & many more for such a thoughtful event to mark 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, full of insights, solidarity - & good hearted people.

🧵An amazing privilege to hear my courageous #Uyghur friend Rahima Mahmut and her brilliant Miras Silk Road Collective performing beautiful Uyghur song and dance tonight, determined to defend Uyghur identity and culture and stop #UyghurGenocide /

We were delighted to be invited to the parliamentary reception to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention hosted in the State Rooms of Speaker’s House. Genocide80Twenty

Chaired meeting in UK Parliament -urged David Cameron to join EU Parliament,UN Special Rapporteur & Secretary Antony Blinken to call for immediate & unconditional release of British citizen Jimmy Lai. With Sebastien Lai on the panel: Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Mark Sabah Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 #FreeJimmyLai

A final huge thank you to Fleur Anderson MP and the Genocide Prevention for their leadership and work to bring people together and strengthen UK commitments to atrocity prevention 🕊️ genocideappg.org/atrocity-preve…

Last night, PEARL attended a Parliamentary reception at the Common Sense Speaker’s State Rooms, to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention, sponsored by Genocide Prevention . We thank the organizers for this powerful event, and we look forward to continuing our work

BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution demanding immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, as well as immediate and unconditional release of all hostages FOR: 153 AGAINST: 10 ABSTAIN: 23 LIVE COVERAGE news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

🚨 This major co-authored bibliography on the Responsibility to Protect #R2P is now out in @GR2P & open access. A huge team effort (123 pages, over 1000 sources) which will hopefully aid future research on mass atrocity prevention . . . 1/4

Important UK politicians are calling on UK Foreign Secretary Cameron to sanction Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee for the unjust prosecution of Jimmy Lai (and for targeting me, ⁦Luke de Pulford⁩ and ⁦Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯⁩) in a blatantly politically motivated case

Today I again urged Govt to launch an International Palestine Contact Group to commence track II negotiations - bringing civil society, youth and women together - to move us closer to a long term peace. Israel also needs to bring forward a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza.

Sudan -Harrowing Darfur report -“Satellites reveal scorched earth where fires have destroyed homes in Darfur & locations of mass graves. Videos show men rounded up & beaten by militiamen who film their own abuses⁦”The Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of Wimbledon KCMG⁩ ⁦Andrew Mitchell⁩ theguardian.com/global-develop…

A meeting to discuss the targeting of Hazara civilians by the Taliban in Afghanistan will convene headed by Mohammad Yasin MP in Parliament tomorrow Wednesday 17th January 2033 in Committee Room 18 from 2-3pm. Genocide Prevention Paul Bristow Lord (David) Alton Hazara National Congress

Thrilled to announce this exciting UK Parliamentary event on CRSV in Ukraine: Lessons from Bosnia, hosted by APPG on WPS, Genocide Prevention, & New Lines Institute. RSVP now for a spot in-person, spaces are limited! Info below:

📢 Statement from Alistair Carmichael MP, Chair of the APPG on Uyghurs, regarding China's Review at #UPR45:

An important but somber visit to Imperial War Museums’s Holocaust Galleries with Alf Dubs and the Genocide Prevention. A vital reminder that the Holocaust is not an abstract historical event but a very real horror that was inflicted upon very real people. I recommend everyone to visit.

Starting in 30mins Andrew Mitchell is giving a statement on · 29th he Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

PRESS RELEASE: The public hearings on the request for advisory opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, concluded today before the #ICJ tinyurl.com/3znesyb9

Government statment on Gaza expected tomorrow.