Ashraf - A Broken US Promise Lord Corbett and Lord Alton December 12, 2011 Howard Dean, the outspoken former Governor of Vermont, recently observed in a speech in Brussels that when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he was quite modest about...
North Korea – Breaking the Deadlock – A Different Approach
Cambridge - 2011 Presentation slides: North_Korea Cambridge 2011 Blessed John Henry Newman
Campaigners Demand Dutch-style Euthanasia Laws for Britain
“These calls to create British euthanasia based laws on Dutch ones have been made in the same week that the Dutch announced that they are considering mobile units to kill people in their own homes. 1,000 of the 4,000 euthanasia deaths in Holland each year are now done...
Letter To The Times – December 9th – from Lady Cox and David Alton Warning of New Genocide in Sudan
http://www.sudantribune.com/Activists-petition-UN-for,41054 Letters To The Times: December 9th 2011 Stop the genocide in South Sudan December 9 2011 12:01AM Unless the international community intervenes, Khartoum will believe it can continue its genocidal...
December 9th 2011 British Parliamentary Debate On The Plight Of Christians In The Middle East
http://www.copts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3437&Itemid=1 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/l_19.htm House of Lords Friday, 9 December 2011. 10 am Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle. Christians in the Middle...
New Genoicde Threatens Sudan As Iranian Made Missiles Are Launched Against Civilians
The recently published House of Lords report, “The EU and Sudan: on the Brink of Change” is a timely report – not least because today (December 7th) it has been reported that Iranian made missiles have been launched against the civilian population of Southern Kordofan...
Letter From Baroness Cox To The Foreign Secretary About The Deteriorating Situation In Southern Kordfan
Sudan PhotoThe Baroness Cox Tel: 0208 204 7336/5661 E-mail: [email protected] FOR URGENT CONSIDERATION The Rt. Hon. William Hague Secretary of State The Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Cc The Lord Howell of Guildford, Henry Bellingham MP, Douglas Alexander MP,...
Fraudulence and Violence In the Congo Elections – Post Election Update
Update December 13th 2011The Carter Centre has issued their report on the recent Congo elections:http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/drc-121011.html. FreeFair DRC is increasingly dismayed at international silence regarding the flawed presidential election results in...
South Sudan's Continuing Struggle against Northern Aggression.
So how’s the world’s newest nation doing? Against daunting odds Southern Sudan is fighting hard to establish itself as a vibrant independent nation – Africa’s fifty fourth country. But it doesn’t help when a British parliamentary report gloomily announce that “We...
Ann Furedi and the calculation that stops a beating heart
Ann Furedi and the calculation that stops a beating heart "I accept that abortion stops a beating heart and I accept that abortion ends a potential human life, even in the very earliest weeks of pregnancy. So if we think it’s a morally wrong or morally coarsening...
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Rwanda Act – Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Joint Committee on Human Rights 15th May 2024.
In the Joint Committee on Human Rights I pressed Minister Michael Tomlinson MP to accept that the Rwanda Act will not tackle the root causes of the mass displacement of more than 114 million people - and treatment of vulnerable human beings should not be treated like...
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Lord Alton will chair a meeting in the UK Parliament to commemorate the 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre. Tiananmen became the focus of large-scale protests - protests which were crushed...
House Magazine – Wake Up Call On CCP Subversion of Democracy: By aligning our response with that of our allies and by implementing robust measures, we should send a clear message to Beijing: that our internal affairs and democratic rights are off-limits to CCP interference.
For all the wrong reasons, China has been in the news again. On the back of a hack and theft of MOD data, accompanied by espionage and cyber-attacks, MI5 briefed Vice Chancellors last week that university research programmes are at risk from malign and hostile...