{"id":99180,"date":"2021-02-04T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99180"},"modified":"2021-02-04T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:44:56","slug":"premiere-bishops-in-house-of-lords-add-to-government-defeat-on-genocide-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99180","title":{"rendered":"(Premiere) Bishops in House of Lords add to Government defeat on Genocide amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Lords has forced the Government to look again at an amendment to the Trade Bill which would give British courts the power to decide whether a genocide has taken place in a country and therefore impact whether trade deals should be made. <\/p>\n<p>Christian Peer Lord Alton (pictured) urged the Government to look again at the matter and nine Bishops supported his amendment, with it passing with a majority of 171 (359 to 188). <\/p>\n<p>Lord Alton said the Government had frequently pointed to the fact that such atrocities need to be officially labelled as genocide, which is a legal term decided by the International Criminal Court, but that China, currently accused of causing death and trauma to thousands of Uighur Muslims, have a veto at the United Nations on what is recommended to the ICC, meaning that route cannot be depended upon. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/bishops-in-house-of-lords-add-to-government-defeat-on-genocide-amendment\">Read it all<\/a> and you can find the full text of Lord Alton&#8217;s speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidalton.net\/2021\/02\/02\/trade-bill-genocide-amendment-house-of-lords-2nd-february-2021\/\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfQIEy0IQaY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Lords has forced the Government to look again at an amendment to the Trade Bill which would give British courts the power to decide whether a genocide has taken place in a country and therefore impact whether<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99180\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,149,168,119,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99208,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180\/revisions\/99208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}