Select Committee · International Development Committee

Promoting dialogue and preventing atrocities: the UK government approach

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Nov 2021 Closed: 8 Mar 2023 19 recommendations 11 conclusions 1 report

Report and Government response published The International Development Committee has now published a Report on From Srebrenica to a safer tomorrow: Preventing future mass atrocities around the world and concluded Russia’s likely mass atrocities in Ukraine underline the urgent need for the UK to adopt a national strategy for preventing and responding to such crimes. …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - From Srebrenica to a safer tomorrow: Prevent… HC 149 17 Oct 2022 30 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
20 Conclusion Third Report - From Srebrenica to a saf… Not Addressed

Although ultimate responsibility must lie with the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Ambassadors and other...

Although ultimate responsibility must lie with the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Ambassadors and other UK Heads of Mission should have a central role in preventing atrocities in the countries where they work. That role should be explicitly articulated in their job descriptions.

Government response. The government discusses Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the 2022 International Development Strategy, focusing on openness, predictability, the rule of law, and empowering civil society. It does not directly address the role of Ambassadors.

Oral evidence sessions

2 sessions
Date Witnesses
24 May 2022 Leigh Stubblefield · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Matthew Field, Pete Vowles, The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office View ↗
11 Jan 2022 Denisa Delić · International Rescue Committee, Natalie Samarasinghe · United Nations Association – UK, Saidi Zirhumana · Support Office for Peacebuilding in the DRC (Bureau de Soutien pour la Consolidation de la Paix), Savita Pawnday · Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
26 Apr 2022 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Af…