Tokyo and Seoul Speech to Promote the UN World Orphans Day Initiative - October 27th 2014. Speech transcript: Time for the United Nations to create a World Orphans Day? Presentation slides: Tokyo-Seoul World Orphans Day
Time for the United Nations to create a World Orphans Day?
Also see Rebecca Tinsley: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-tinsley/time-to-celebrate-the-bra_b_6081788.html Tokyo and Seoul Speech to Promote the UN World Orphans Day Initiative: October 27th 2014. To access powerpoint accompanying this talk, click here:...
Save Asia Bibi – Christian woman facing execution in Pakistan
The recent decision to award Malala Yousafzai the Nobel Peace Prize was a good one for women and a good one for Pakistan but the decision to sentence Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian, to death was a bad one for all women, all minorities, people of all faiths, and...
Parliamentary Questions and Interventions – Autumn 2014: Pay Day Loans Advertising, EBOLA, Iraqi Refugees – and using Afghanistan’s British tent city for Iraqi refugees – , South Sudan and other issues
To see all of the questions tabled recently click on: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/ldallfiles/peers/lord_hansard_3643_wad.html Pay Day Loan Advertising Aimed At Children Amendment 102 Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool 102: After Clause 86,...
North Korea – Looking to the Far Horizon” – Keynote Address by David Alton: Korea Security Conference: University of Central Lancashire. October 16th 2014.
Korea Security Conference: University of Central Lancashire. October 16th 2014. Keynote Address by David Alton (Professor Lord Alton of Liverpool): “North Korea – Looking to the Far Horizon” This is a timely moment to consider the situation on the Korean Peninsula....
Question in the Lords on 3% Mesothelioma Levy – Liverpool conference on Mesothelioma and the Law – reply from Lord Freud
Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Lord Faulks on 9 December 2014 (HL Deb, col 1710), what evidence they have for the assertion that a lack of good research proposals is deterring research into mesothelioma and that there...
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Also see: h https://www.davidalton.net/2012/01/04/apocalypse-revelation-lord-of-the-world-lord-of-the-rings-and-fr-elijah/ Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See is set during the Second World War. It beautifully links the destiny of a blind French girl and a...
Roscoe Lecture Series – Autumn 2014 – Hear Valerie Amos: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm
Roscoe Lectures: Hear the latest Roscoe Lecture: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm Last night (October 1st) John Fleming, Executive Vice President Europe of Ford Motor Company, flew into Liverpool from Detroit to give last night's Roscoe Lecture. The title of...
The world watches Hong Kong with apprehension tinged with hope – Desmond Tutu speaks out
The world watches Hong Kong's umbrella protests with apprehension tinged with hope Anyone who loves China and the people of China will be watching events in Hong Kong with a combination of apprehension, fear and hope. The apprehension and the fear is based on what...
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 Questions about the targeting of Hazara community members by ISIS; whether the FCDO meet – Hazara representatives to discuss the continuing violence and persecution facing their community in Afghanistan; how they act on their admission that “minority groups such as the Hazara people face discrimination and attacks”; and why they wont publish their latest Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability assessment on Afghanistan
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4200): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...
Question about development funding for Pakistan to help create a national trust fund to support the education of children from the families of bonded labour and whether the UK will assist the government of Pakistan in seizing assets of owners of brick kilns illegally using bonded labour and repurposing those assets for the education and welfare of families trapped in bonded labour.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4261): Question by Lord Alton of LIverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of...
Tiananmen Massacre Commemorated At Westminster — 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP’s Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist’s European Berlin Wall. “There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom” -Liu Xiaobo
The Tiananmen Square Massacre Has Been Commemorated At Westminster -- 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP's Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist's European Berlin Wall. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for...