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- UK Foreign Office claims only a court can find "genocide."
Sudan Is The Genocide Which Dares Not Speak Its Name – with warnings ignored by the British Foreign Office The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office(Baroness Chapman of Darlington) ( The UK Foreign Office uses this excuse to avoid preventive action when genocide is underway. Given that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday, without a court determination, that what [And deny the UK Foreign Office's complicity in this genocide.]
- UK Foreign Office favors UAE over Sudan genocide victims
UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told The UK Foreign Office In May 2024, officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told Nathaniel Raymond “The FCDO official and I discussed numbers further. to the RSF because the UK government could not. Genocide Watch comment: UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) staff should be charged
- West Bank: attacks on Palestinians and foreign officials
But this is not the first time Israeli settlers have assaulted foreign officials or prominent Palestinians Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has, however, appeared to question the reports of “Serious questions remain”, said a post on the official X account of the prime minister’s office, calling Three months after the incident, on Saturday, October 17, Khanna called Netanyahu a “liar” after his office removed the penalties against Levi and other settlers accused of extremist violence after assuming office
- British Foreign Officer resigns over illegal arms sales
That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office The Guardian 9 Feb 2025 By Mark Smith Ministers and senior I am a former diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO As a lead officer on arms sales policy, I was responsible for assessing whether the UK government’s arms The Foreign Office’s handling of these issues is nothing short of a scandal. Mark Smith is a former Foreign Office policy adviser Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is
- UK unit tracking Israel breaches of international law closed after cuts
UK Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts The VERIFIED INCIDENTS DUE TO CUTS The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international Foreign Office will lose access to a database of 26,000 verified incidents in the Middle East. The database is also used to help Foreign Office teams decide whether arms export control licences to It is understood the head of the war crimes team in the counter-terrorism unit urged the Foreign Office
- The UK’s Failure to Recognize Genocide
For years, the lawyers in the UK’s Foreign Office have refused to recognize mass killing as genocide foreign policy to courts, and to the lawyers in the UK Foreign Office. a) UK Foreign Office lawyers’ refusal to use the word genocide until the genocide is declared by a court c) Foreign Office lawyers should be advising, rather than dictating, UK foreign policy. c) By ceding a monopoly on the term “genocide” to Foreign Office lawyers, the UK Foreign Minister is
- UK Trial Challenges ‘Responsible Gold’ Certification
Families of Tanzanian Mine Victims Seek Justice Juliane Kippenberg October 1, 2026 North Mara Gold Mine in Tarime district, northwest Tanzania. © 2022 Private An unusual trial will begin next week in London’s High Court: the families of two 23-year-old Tanzanian men who were fatally shot in 2019 at a Canadian-owned gold mine in northern Tanzania are bringing a case against the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), an industry body that oversees the London gold market. Another 30 Tanzanians recently joined the case, while a Canadian court dismissed another lawsuit over the killings, saying it did not have jurisdiction. The families are seeking redress for the LBMA’s decision to certify gold from the mine as “responsible gold.” Human rights groups have reported for years that police have killed and injured people accused of trespassing and mining at the North Mara mine. Barrick Gold, the mine owner, has acknowledged deaths occurred, but says that the police were not under its control. Despite the deaths at the site, an Indian-Swiss gold refinery continued to source from the mine until 2024. As an LBMA member, the refinery was audited annually to show compliance with the LBMA’s “Responsible Gold Guidance”—a standard requiring companies to identify and respond to human rights risks in their supply chain. The victims’ families allege that the LBMA wrongly certified the gold from North Mara mine. The LBMA says it does not accept that the “tragic fatalities were caused by, or are connected to, LBMA’s work, role or responsibilities.” The refinery stated it rigorously followed the LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance. The case points to a wider problem. Industry certification systems often rely on superficial and untransparent audits. A Human Rights Watch investigation in 2023 found that the LBMA certified gold from an Ethiopian mine as “responsible” until 2018 despite serious rights abuses, including severe pollution and health impacts on children and pregnant women. The LBMA responded that the guidance in effect did not include environmental impacts. While the LBMA recently took a step toward greater transparency – requiring disclosure of suppliers from sensitive “red flag locations” – more robust rules are needed. Governments should adopt laws requiring companies to respect rights in their global supply chains. Certification bodies should drastically improve their auditing, publish audit reports, and require members to fully disclose their supply chains. In the meantime, the trial could prove crucial for the families seeking justice – and for the gold industry’s practices. © 2026 Human Rights Watch
- Hezbollah drone strikes UK RAF airbase in Cyprus
March 2, 2026 A one-way attack drone – said to have been launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah – struck the UK It has not yet publicly determined from where the drones were launched, though officials said the first drone was launched before Keir Starmer announced the UK would allow the US to use its airbases to bomb missile sites, but officials indicate the possible flight times mean it was launched before the prime Asked about the safety of hundreds of thousands of UK nationals in the region, Yvette Cooper, the foreign
- Ex-Rwandan Official Appears At UK Trial Over 1994 Genocide
display at a memorial to the 1994 Rwandan genocide [File: Joe McNally/Getty Images] A former Rwandan official Prosecutor Jane Stansfield said Brown was head of the Department of Family Health within Rwanda’s National Office Originally from Kigali, Brown is believed to have entered the UK as an asylum seeker in 1998 and lived Brown officially changed his last name from Bajinya when granted UK citizenship in 2004 and was first Seven-year inquiry The charges arose after a complex seven-year UK investigation that began in September
- Kosovo postpones controversial foreign visitor law
Saturday said that the government is postponing for 12 months the enforcement of new entry regulations for foreigners The so-called Law on Foreigners stipulated that all foreign nationals entering Kosovo for reasons ranging It also prohibits vehicles with foreign licence plates from being on the roads for more than three months EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on X that the move was “an important step forward for the benefit The head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, said that “the solution will
- Morocco: new finance minister; foreign, interior ministers unchanged
REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi/File Photo King Mohammed VI of Morocco poses for an official group photograph The new government retained the foreign affairs and interior ministers in their posts, MAP reported policy direction in Morocco, a constitutional monarchy where the king retains sweeping powers over foreign
- Saudi Arabia is executing foreigners for drug crimes
Nearly 600 people have been put to death since 2014, with 75% of them foreigners. out a “horrifying” number of executions for drug crimes over the past decade, most of which were of foreign The limited education and disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds of some foreign nationals on death the status of their appeals or when their execution might occur, with some only informed by prison officials Saudi officials were contacted for comment. © 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies











