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Questions on the warning by Médecins Sans Frontières of a critical vaccine shortage in Darfur; prediction by UNICEF’s that 700,000 Sudanese children will suffer severe malnutrition; UNICEF’s report that the 2023–24 El Niño phenomenon has led to the closure of schools in South Sudan; and the effect of the prolonged heatwave and drought on eastern and southern Africa.

Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...

Answers to Questions about allegations of internally displaced people in South Darfur being abused by the Rapid Support Forces, including allegations of rape, assault and looting; what is being done to provide protection, to collect and preserve evidence to bring charges against any perpetrators and the the UN Security Council Panel of Experts’ report referring to the role of Abdel Rahman Juma, the West Darfur RSF commander; and the recent increase in the number of displaced persons from Sudan to the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile region, and the additional impact on people in that region from crop failures and locust infestations.

Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2378): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allegations...

Genocide should not be reduced to a conjuror’s trick: “Now you see it, now you don’t”. Darfur has been mysteriously withdrawn from the list of genocides recognised by the UK. Where does this leave the ICC’s genocide indictment ? What does it say about what is happening all over again in Darfur?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/darfur Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL1131): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's...

Government challenged to honour “the responsibility to protect “ in Darfur; to engage with countries like the US, Canada, Germany, and France to galvanise an international response to Genocide; and to respond to reports that Libya is arming the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan and adding to the flow of arms into Darfur.

Government challenged to honour “the responsibility to protect “ in Darfur; to engage with countries like the US, Canada, Germany, and France to galvanise an international response to Genocide; and to respond to reports that Libya is arming the Rapid Support Forces in...

In responding to the Recommendations of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sudan and South Sudan in its Report “Genocide: All Over Again in Darfur?” Government says that when conditions in Sudan allow “the UK will lead international efforts to rebuild the Sudanese economy and mitigate the humanitarian impact across the country”

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL7462): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...

Questions about the number of people being displaced in Darfur annually, the total number of asylum claims from Darfur, the current grant rate of asylum claims for (a) Sudanese, and (b) Darfuri claimants, and how long it takes on average to process such claims. Home Office needs far more detailed and robust data so it can understand why people end up in small boats and why we must tackle root causes of displacement.

Lord Murray of Blidworth, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5971): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the number of people being displaced...

Government asked about the continuing displacements and motives behind the waves of violence in Darfur and what consideration they have given to applying Magnitsky-style sanctions to those responsible for the military coup in Sudan.

Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5970): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what communication there has been between the Home Office and the Country...

Minister answers questions on the death sentence by stoning given in Sudan to Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab for adultery; on signs of atrocities in Darfur is including an increase in sexual and gender-based violence in the states of Darfur, and the intentional destruction of medical and educational infrastructure in the region.

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL1762): Question:To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of...

Darfur- Government responds to questions about the reported increase in violence, including sexual violence and the mass displacement of Darfuri people. They say that “at least 89,000 people have been displaced since October 2021 -“ adding to the millions displaced or dead from Genocide.

Visit to Darfur in 2004 Darfur- Government responds to questions about the reported increase in violence, including sexual violence and the mass displacement of Darfuri people. They say that “at least 89,000 people have been displaced since October 2021 -“ adding to...

Andrew Mitchell is right to call upon all those who care about the holocaust, genocide, and justice to take up the cause of the souls of the slaughtered Tutsis who cry out for justice. He says “Britain has turned a deaf ear. We should all be ashamed.” And, What I Learnt at Rwanda’s Murambi Genocide site in 2004 and in Darfur as “never again” happened all over again.

Andrew Mitchell is right to call upon all those who care about the holocaust, genocide, and justice to take up the cause of the souls of the slaughtered Tutsis who cry out for justice. He says “Britain has turned a deaf ear. We should all be ashamed.” And, What I Learnt at Rwanda’s Murambi Genocide site in 2004 and in Darfur as “never again” happened all over again.

In my 2004 report I described how “56,000 bodies were found there, and we walked from classroom to classroom, viewing 852 remains that have been disinterred. Within a few days of the massacre, a volleyball court had been built on top of one of the mass graves which,...

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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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