Mary Creagh, British Member of Parliament for Wakefield, reflects upon International Holocaust Memorial Day by noting President Obama’s August 2011 Presidential Directive on Mass Atrocities (external link), as a “bold step to allow the US government to respond quickly to instances of potential mass atrocities and genocide.” In a Huffington Post (UK) article, she references the 2008 report of the Museum co-sponsored Genocide Prevention Task Force chaired by Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. That report, which provided a blueprint for the US government to improve its response to genocide, could, she suggests, be a model for other countries to follow. Read Creagh’s article, "An International Response to Prevent Future Genocides" (external link)
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