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– Lord Alton of Liverpool

Government responds to question about the potential of an international tribunal for delivering reparations to victims of the war in Ukraine

2024-05-01

Replies to Parliamentary Questions on whether the UK Government intend to propose legislation to ensure that the UK is not a safe haven for perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine and whether they are planning to introduce legislation to amend the International Criminal Court Act 2001 to enable UK courts to prosecute non-citizens and non-residents for crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide in Ukraine.

2024-05-01

Replies to Parliamentary Questions on the number of people who are dying of hunger or who are food insecure in Sudan; how quickly the UK decision to increase humanitarian aid for war victims in Sudan will be made available; what it will be used for; and how it will be deployed; and the impact of the war in Sudan on South Sudan, including (1) the numbers of displaced people and refugees, and (2) the impact on its economy caused by the loss of receipts from the export of oil

2024-05-01

Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong's Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre "Nothing Happened Here" cited as an example of the suppression of truth.

2024-05-01

British universities and Chinese money

2024-04-30

2024 Hong Kong Symposium: British Hong Kongers are the Advance Guard In the Battle Between Dictatorship and Democracy.

2024-04-30

Female genital mutilation in The Gambia raised with The Gambia's Foreign Minister

2024-04-30

UK aid supporting minorities in Pakistan - short debate House of Lords 25th April 2024. Full Text of Speeches and Recording of Debate

2024-04-25

Letter to the Prime Minister calling for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

2024-04-25

At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.

2024-04-19

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.

2024-04-18

£1 Trillion - Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.

2024-04-17

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.

2024-04-17

Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th - the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder

2024-04-16

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.

2024-04-15

Despite the suppression of the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan the Government admits it "has not introduced any Global Human Rights sanctions against the Taliban since they took power in 2021." Parliament needs to assert oversight of the random and opaque process of Magnitsky Sanctions.

2024-04-15