Good Citizenship Awards In Liverpool Earlier in the week young people from across the Merseyside Borough of Knowsley received their Good Citizenship Awards at a ceremony sponsored by Arriva at Aintree Racecourse. On Friday, July 8th young people from Wirral and Sefton...
Southern Sudan – Independence Day July 9th – Stop Killing Nuba Children
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rebecca-tinsley/how-not-to-screw-up-south_b_893369.html?ir=UK Sudan: Framework Agreement Question 2.57 pm Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool To ask Her Majesty's Government, in advance of Southern Sudan's independence on 9 July, what is...
The Fight Facing Us – Speech to Right To Life, London, July 7th 2011
The Fight Facing Us Text of a Speech delivered by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) on Thursday July 7th, 2011, at the River Thames Right To Life Summer Event It was Victor Frankl in "The Doctor and the Soul", who said “sometimes, the unfinished are among the most...
Ireland and the healing of history
Not long after John Major had issued the Downing Street Declaration (the Joint Declaration on Peace in Northern Ireland), at the end of 1994 , I was on a political visit to Dublin. During the discussion with officials about whether this latest initiative would achieve...
North Korean Witnesses Give Evidence to Parliamentary Hearing about Human Rights Issues
Last week, on June 28th 2011, David Alton chaired an Evidence Hearing in Parliament, which took testimonies from two north Koreans and two other witnesses: Mrs Kim Hye Sook Artist and defector Kim Hye Sook spoke of her 27 year incarceration in Yodok prison camp, where...
Women's Rights Without Frontiers and China's Coercive One Child Policy
( Zenit.org).- "China's one-child policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other policy on earth, than any official policy in the history of the world." These are the passionate words of Reggie Littlejohn, a U.S. attorney who founded Women's Rights...
Gendercide of little girls in India. The story of India's 70,000 ultra sound machines and for what they can be used.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/12-million-girls-aborted-in-three-decades-in-india/200512 Gendercide of little girls in India - all in the name of my right to choose - the ending of the life of a little girl because of her gender. The story of India's 70,000...
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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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...