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...
Concerns about a lack of preparedness for the holding of elections in South Sudan. Government says: “The UK continues to press for implementation of South Sudan’s Peace Agreement and a peaceful transition to democracy through peaceful, credible and inclusive elections.”
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2824): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of concerns about a...
In the context of malaria and cholera outbreaks in Sudan replies from the Government about whether they intend to help to restore essential health services in the conflict zones of Sudan, and to support South Sudan in providing health services for refugees
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL84): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend (1) to help to restore...
Government says it is in high level contact with other Governments about the continuing conflict in Sudan and says it has provided an initial £5 million of life-saving aid to help meet the urgent needs of tens of thousands of refugees and returnees in South Sudan and Chad who have fled the violence in Sudan.
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL7930): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord...
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...
GENOCIDE: ALL OVER AGAIN IN DARFUR?INQUIRY INTO VIOLENCE IN DARFUR SINCE 2020 BY THE ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN
https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1650999878883893248?s=46&t=bdJwQ39bSducVkIUM4iJbQ The report finds the new waves of violence since 2020 include killings, the use of rape and sexual violence, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, the use of child...
Parliamentary Debate on the Horn of Africa – double curse of conflict and corruption as desperate people are left to die of starvation: Tigray, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan.
Parliamentary Debate on the Horn of Africa - double curse of conflict and corruption as desperate people are left to die of starvation: Tigray, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan. House of Lords: February 7th 2023 https://youtu.be/Tz9gGSuVSTA Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)...
BBC reports Rape on the rise in South Sudan as fighting eases – shocking 218% increase in rape and gang rape between April and June.
Rape on the rise in South Sudan as fighting eases Nicola Mandil BBC News, Juba Conflict-related sexual violence is on the rise in South Sudan as fighting in the country eases, according to the UN mission in the country, Unmiss. In a report, the mission said there was...
Minister asked about the report made to the US Congress under the 2022 Elie Wiesel Act on the situation in Abyei, an area contested between Sudan and South Sudan. He says the U.K. has joined “the UN Secretary-General’s call for the African Union to intensify its mediation efforts to help reach a political solution for Abyei”
Minister asked about the report made to the US Congress under the 2022 Elie Wiesel Act on the situation in Abyei, an area contested between Sudan and South Sudan. He says the U.K. has joined “the UN Secretary-General's call for the African Union to intensify its...
Government asked, in advance of next week’s vote in the Commons about the effect of cuts to the UK aid programme on peacebuilding programmes, and peacebuilding initiatives in South Sudan; who was responsible for the attack on the village of Dungob Alei; and what progress has been made in implementing the commitments entered into in the peace deal signed in South Sudan in 2018 and which commitments are still to be put into effect.
A South Sudanese mother cradles her baby as health and nutrition services, water and sanitation services, education, child-friendly spaces and psychosocial support for children are all affected by conflict. Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and...
South Sudan: UK says from April-July 2021, 7.2 million people -60 per cent of population – will experience high levels of acute food insecurity with “an estimated 108,000 people are projected to face catastrophic famine-like conditions.”
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL14901): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the...
SOUTH SUDAN: UN PEACEKEEPERS ‘ABANDON’ VILLAGE ONE HOUR BEFORE 32 CIVILIANS MASSACRED – “The scale of suffering and depth of grief is altogether overwhelming. Local people feel abandoned. They are indignant at the failure of so-called peacekeepers to provide adequate protection” Baroness Cox
SOUTH SUDAN: UN PEACEKEEPERS ‘ABANDON’ VILLAGE ONE HOUR BEFORE 32 CIVILIANS MASSACRED On Wednesday 22 January, just after 7am, nomadic Misseriya herders attacked the Dinka village of Kolom in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border. The herders...
2019- Protests Throughout Sudan. Think Again about Dealing With A Genocidal Regime. 2018 -As South Sudan celebrates seven years of independence, its people have little to cheer. Its warring leaders must make a cease fire work – and from Nigeria to the Central African Republic Africa’s leaders should see what happens when you fail to stop a radical ideology in its tracks.
2019- Protests Throughout Sudan. Think Again about Dealing With A Genocidal Regime. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-47216487/what-happens-inside-sudan-s-secret-detention-centres Lord Alton calls on British govt to reconsider dialogue with Sudan February 14,...
Famine Declared In South Sudan – Link to new report on Sudan launched this week in Parliament. Urgent Question on the famine put in Parliament.
Famine Declared In South Sudan On Thursday February 23rd the Lord Speaker granted a rare urgent Private Notice Question - this, on the famine that has been declared in South Sudan: Famine declared in South Sudan; 4.9 million people need urgent help Famine in South...
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,...
Sudan – Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity In Darfur and South Kordofan; Confict in South Sudan – the killing and suffering continues
2014 - South Sudan the killing and suffering continues: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/a-sudanese-refugee-crisis-photographed-from-the-ground-up/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=2 Also see -...
Latest Horrors In South Sudan – latest evidence published of Khartoum's bombing campaign – Meanwhile it's business as usual while thousands die and while Nahid Gabralla and other human rights campaigners are jailed
Latest evidence of aerial bombardment of Sudanese villages by Khartoum... http://allafrica.com/stories/201207210001.html Government accused of double standards on Sudan - UK Politics - UK - The Independent...
Latest Horrors In South Sudan – latest evidence published of Khartoum’s bombing campaign – Meanwhile it’s business as usual while thousands die and while Nahid Gabralla and other human rights campaigners are jailed
Latest evidence of aerial bombardment of Sudanese villages by Khartoum... http://allafrica.com/stories/201207210001.html Government accused of double standards on Sudan - UK Politics - UK - The Independent...
Baroness Caroline Cox and HART report on conditions in South Kordofan following a visit to South Sudan
Bombs and Rain will kill thousands in Sudan and South Sudan unless the international community intervenesApril 16, 2012 PRESS RELEASE A humanitarian catastrophe is inflicted by Khartoum Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) returned yesterday from visiting people...
House of Lords debate – South Sudan and South Kordofan – March 26th 2012.
Debate followed by extended remarks: South Sudan Question 6.30 pm Asked By Baroness Cox To ask Her Majesty's Government what provisions they are making to support the Government of South Sudan, with particular reference to the development of good governance and...
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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
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...