“The left should carve out a new long-term narrative about British foreign policy: one that puts human rights and the protection of civilians centre stage again. And one that reasserts our commitment to the responsibility to protect those most at risk of mass atrocity crimes. This isn’t really about being pro or anti-military intervention. Rather it’s a call to redefine the principles that will guide the decisions we take, as well as a commitment to then honour them.”

Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159.

Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (13 October 2015)

Article No. 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbFznb7PSGsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
1770s, Declaration of Independence (1776), Earlier drafts

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

2013, UN rights expert hails Arms Trade Treaty and urges States to do more to also regulate production http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13207&LangID=E.
2013

2003

A new progressive internationalism (17 June 2016)
Context: After the horror of 9/11 ‘interventionism’ was increasingly expressed through the paradigms of ‘security’ or ‘counter terrorism’, rather than being grounded firmly in the protection of civilians. And then Labour’s support for military action in Iraq distorted a worthy principle with such devastating impact. The legacy of Iraq – an intervention I was wholly opposed to because it was not fundamentally about protecting civilians – still hangs over us. But Labour can no longer be paralysed by Iraq. We need to learn from its many lessons without forgetting the equally important lessons of Bosnia or Rwanda.

"As I Please," Tribune (4 February 1944)^{http://alexpeak.com/twr/hiwbtw/}
As I Please (1943–1947)

2011 speech to the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm?speech=311 (2011)
2011