Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise at the UN the Amendment to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights adopted at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union.

The African Court of Justice and Human Rights is not yet operational.

The UK continues to believe that there must be no impunity for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. We will continue to voice our support for this principle.

The UK strongly supports the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a court of last resort when other courts are unable or unwilling to act. The Rome Statute of the ICC states that the Statute shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction based on official capacity. This important principle supports the Court's work to end impunity for the perpetrators of atrocities and deliver justice for victims of such crimes.