Tibet: Breaking the Deadlock A Report to the All Party China Group October 2009 This report details the findings of four Parliamentarians who visited the Tibet Autonomous Region in September 2009. They are: Lord Steel of Aikwood Lord Alton of Liverpool Derek Wyatt MP...
Breaking the Deadlock in Tibet http://www.jubileecampaign.org/vision_news.asp
Following the visit of David Alton and David Steel to Tibet in 2009 they published the following report setting out a series of recommendations: Breaking The Deadlock in Tibet: http://www.jubileecampaign.org/vision_news.asp Reflections from Tibet...
Assisted Dying, Euthanasia and Bias in the BBC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/15/choosing-to-die-terry-pratchett ...
The Plight of Pakistan's Minorities – Ahmadis, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians facing campaign of relentless violence..
Article for E-Politix.com ahead of House of Lords Question on the plight of Pakistan’s minorities, June 22nd 2011: Question to be raised by Crossbench Peer, Lord Alton of Liverpool. In 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave a speech to the New Delhi Press Club, setting out...
As Bombs Drop in Sudan, Peers Call for Further Referral of Khartoum to the International Criminal Court
http://www.sudantribune.com/UK-Peers-call-for-action-in-Abyei,39228 Subject: Southern Kordofan and Abyei - Peers Call for Khartoum to be referred to International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity. FOR URGENT CONSIDERATION by The Rt. Hon. William Hague...
The West of Ireland – The Maamtrasna Murders 3.
On the 15th of December 1882 whilst, poignantly, Bridget Joyce was giving birth to their daughter, her husband Myles was facing William Marwood, the Public Executioner for Great Britain and Ireland. As he was taken to his death at the gallows in Galway Prison – held...
The West of Ireland Maamtrasna Murders. 2
When the Maamtrasna murders took place in 1882, the little settlement of Maamtrasna was situated in County Galway. Here, about 250 families scratched a living from the land, labouring in the shadow of Maamtrasna Mountain. In 1898, a reconfiguration of county...
The West of Ireland Maamtrasna Murders 1.
In the 1950s the Princess Maud and Hibernia were two of the ferries which plied their way between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire. I travelled on them several times as a youngster when my mother took me back to Mayo to see her people. Memories of long, exhausting,...
Facts of Life and Death – Right To Life's Response To The Euthanasia Lobby
Right To Life has published its response to the campaign being waged to legalise euthanasia in the UK: FACTS ON EUTHANASIA THAT “DIGNITY IN DYING” WILL NOT DISCLOSE TO YOU 1. Since 1991 it has been a matter of public record that euthanasia deaths are...
Before Attacking LIFE Evan Harris Needs To See Doonby
Near hysteria erupted when it was announced that the charity LIFE should be invited to join the Government’s advisory committee on issues such as teenage pregnancy. This was despite the fact that LIFE does such outstanding work with vulnerable women, unborn babies...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Replies to Parliamentary Questions on the number of people who are dying of hunger or who are food insecure in Sudan; how quickly the UK decision to increase humanitarian aid for war victims in Sudan will be made available; what it will be used for; and how it will be deployed; and the impact of the war in Sudan on South Sudan, including (1) the numbers of displaced people and refugees, and (2) the impact on its economy caused by the loss of receipts from the export of oil
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3877): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people...
Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...