Jo Cox report urges UK not to shy away from overseas intervention

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?Hard as it may be, we have to be prepared to use all the tools in our toolbox to prevent war crimes and crimes against humanity and advance the causes of universal human rights and development.? ?She felt deeply that the UK had a duty to stand up for civilians threatened by war and genocide,? he said. ?Nothing is more important than the responsibility of each state to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and the responsibility of the international community to act if a state is unwilling or unable to do so,? he said. The report, which was finished by Cox?s colleague and fellow MP Alison McGovern and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, makes the case that doing nothing can have a greater cost than intervention. ?Last week I was clearing some of Jo?s things and found the first draft of the report that she had scribbled all over.