The aim is also to encourage the government to make atrocity prevention a clearer priority for the Foreign Office. At present, ministers say it is not for the UK government to determine if a genocide is occurring, but a matter for the international court of justice or the international criminal court. Yet in practice, the recent UK arms export licensing case confirms that ministers have been given private legal advice by civil servants as to whether a genocide is occurring, including officials saying no genocide was under way in Gaza last year. Similarly, there are sometimes legal disputes about the obligations placed on ministers by the duty to prevent genocide as set out in the genocide convention, part of the international law that emerged from the second world war. A new duty on government to prevent crimes against humanity is being considered by the UN general assembly, making the issue of the duty to prevent more urgent.