Faith Targeted Human Trafficking in Pakistan Read this important post from the Arise Foundation https://www.arise.foundation/news/faith-targeted-human-trafficking-highlights-need-for-better-foreign-aid-policy - and raised in parliamentary questions: Question text...
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Surprise Celebration of 40 years in Parliament – 40 years since the Liverpool Edge Hill By Election: Freedom is not “free” it comes at a great price.
Surprise Celebration of 40 years in Parliament - 40 years since the Liverpool Edge Hill By ElectionFreedom is not "free" it comes at a great price. Yesterday, I was genuinely moved, and taken completely unawares, by a surprise celebration of my 40 years in Parliament,...
The Danube Institute Conference on Invisible Victims and Religious Freedom, April 9th, 2019, The Reform Club, London. And what Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, had to say on Easter Sunday about the targeting of Christians
Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, wrote well on Easter Day about the persecution of Christians. His words were given sombre and stark perspective by the truly shocking carnage in Sri Lanka – but also by further unreported deaths in Nigeria. In northern Nigeria 17...
Threat To Murder An Innocent Woman Who Has Languished On Death Row for Nine Years. Pakistan’s Supreme Court Upholds Their Decision To Free Asia Bibi. Questions asked in Parliament about renewed threats to her life and the role of UK aid in promoting a less discriminatory society. BBC Report.
Threat To Murder An Innocent Woman Who Has Languished On Death Row for Nine Years Baroness Williams of Trafford, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL13272): Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government what...
What lessons we can learn from the 80th anniversary of Kindertransport – and from the stories of Sir Nicholas Winton, Trevor Chadwick, Florence Nankivell, Doreen Warriner, Beatrice Wellington, and others involved in organising escape routes for children threatened by Nazism
. November 26th 2018 - Today's Debate: The 80th anniversary of Kindertransport 6.30 pm Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, there is no one better to have opened...
Religious Freedom In The World Report Launched Ahead of Red Wednesday 2018. How the West is failing those persecuted for their Faith. The Prince of Wales and an Appeal To End Religious Persecution. Links to Remarks by the Patriarchs of the Eastern churches. The 70th Anniversary of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the plight of Asia Bibi and the millions who suffer for their religion or beliefs. http://religious-freedom-report.org/
Religious Freedom In The World Report Launched In Advance of Red Wednesday 2018.The West is failing those persecuted for their Faith. Use Red Wednesday - and the run up to the 70th Anniversary of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - to show...
Inspiring Service – Pembroke College, the University of Oxford: Principles, Practice, People.
Inspiring Service – Pembroke College, the University of Oxford. November 23rd, 2018: Principles, Practice, People. Only in Britain would the words “Community Service” be turned into a punishment to be dispensed by the courts. The principle of serving...
Why We Should Give Asylum To Asia Bibi – and why, not to do so, flies in the face of everything Britain is supposed to stand for. Question in The House – November 20th 2018. Link to Petition.launch of Religious Freedom In the World Report November 22nd;Support Asia Bibi on Red Wednesday -November 28th. Reply From the Prime Minister.
Red Wednesday will be commemorated in the UK on Wednesday November 28th when churches, schools and public buildings will be lit red – to express solidarity with those persecuted for their faith. This year many will focus on the plight of Asia Bibi who has been...
Pakistan receives an average of £383,000 in British taxpayers’ money each and every single day – £2.8 billion over 20 years – raised with Ministers on the floor of the House. Yet, as Asia Bibi’s case demonstrates, they trample on the rights of minorities; trample on the ideals on which the State was founded; and trample on the rule of law. The U.K. needs to consider sending its daily subvention of £383,000 to a more worthy recipient. Read the latest parliamentary replies. Read the letter from 190 Parliamentarians to Imran Khan calling for Asia Bibi to be allowed to leave the country. Hear the story of Iqbal Masih
This link takes you to the story of Iqbal Masih, a 12 years old, incredibly brave, Christian boy in Pakistan who rebelled against his slavery and, as a result, was shot dead. In his short life he managed to influence the lives of many people, and his story deserves to...
Freedom of Religion or Belief In Commonwealth Countries Raised In Parliament and Discussed with Leading Judge From Pakistan. Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 – Debate in The House of Lords. References to Free Speech; Persecution of Minorities; Human Rights Violations; Meeting with Sudan’s Opposition Leader; Killings In Nigeria
Freedom of Religion or Belief In Commonwealth Countries Raised In Parliament and Discussed with Leading Judge From Pakistan It was wonderful to chair a constructive and very positive meeting this morning (April 19th 2018) with Justice (R) Chowhan, Chairman of the...
Washington Speech on Syria: Diplomatic Association Dinner, Bacon House, Washington DC, 11th May 2017; speech on Persecution of Christians, Washington, May 2017;Carnage at Westminster -as parliamentarians hear from some of those who face terror every day of their lives. Link to Milton Lecture on Protecting Fundamental Freedoms Whilst Combating Hate. Easter Attacks on Egypt’s Copts.
Speech on Syria: Diplomatic Association Dinner, Bacon House, Washington DC, 11th May 2017 – David Alton I will address three things: The contagious spread of the Genocide against Christians and other minorities; The need for Realism in combatting...
John Milton Lecture on “Freedom of Religion or Belief”, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
mansfield-college-milton-lecture - Power Point presentation to accompany the following lecture Mansfield College March 3rd 2017 David Alton John Milton Lecture on “ Freedom of Religion or Belief” In setting the scene for...
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Presentation: October 19th 2016 on Why Freedom of Religion and Belief Is Relevant and Urgent and Address give at Nayrouz Service October 20th 2016, St.Margaret’s Church, Westminster, at the conclusion of the Conference.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Presentation: October 19th 2016 Why Freedom of Religion and Belief Is Relevant and Urgent To View Accompanying Power Point presentation click on: https://www.davidalton.net/media/ The BBC’s courageous chief international...
You Tube Link to the Warsaw Lectures on Article 18 and Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Interviews and a Commemorative Visit to the Tomb and Museum of Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko – Poland’s Martyr for Religious and Political Freedom; and Visit to the Centre for Totalitarian Studies
The links below take you to the Warsaw lecture and presentation which the organisers have made available on youtube. Article 18 lecture (English version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mNu3FCd5cM&feature=youtu.be Presentation (A matter of life and death):...
Parliamentary Replies – July-September and Debate on Freedom of Religion or Belief – September 8 – Full text and link to TV recording – Syria, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Burma – plus Government Minister’s Follow Up Letter and Ministerial reply admitting that none of the more than £1 billion of aid given to Pakistan is used to promote Article 18.
Some Parliamentary Replies: July – September 2016 Iraq and Syria – Genocide Baroness Anelay of St Johns, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL1950): Question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government...
The Year of Mercy and What It Means for Human Rights, Gonzaga Lecture, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
In thanking Ryan Day for inviting me to speak this evening I sense that this is also a rather clever way of imposing a Lenten Penance on you the audience. In the best Jesuit tradition – and as the Romans divided Gaul into three parts - I note that there are three...
Pope Francis, in the Central African Republic – diplomat extraordinaire
Question for Short Debate: December 10th 2015 Asked by Baroness Berridge To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to tackle the rise in religiously-identified conflicts and violence, in the light...
November: Why our aid programme must support religious freedom; October: Government challenged on the failure to declare Genocide against Christians and Yazidis
http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2015/11/fiona-bruce-mp-and-lord-alton-our-aid-programme-must-support-religious-freedom.html Published: November 12, 2015 Lord Alton and Fiona Bruce MP: Our aid programme must support religious freedom By Lord Alton Last...
October Hearing on Eritrea to be followed by November Hearings in Parliament on Pakistani Christians and other minorities – Call for Evidence – Latest Replies From The British Government on Pakistani Escapees; New article “Why does the world stand idle as Pakistan persecutes Christians?”
ERITREA: Briefing in Parliament organised by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, to be chaired by Lord Alton of Liverpool, on Tuesday October 20th at 2.00pm in Committee Room 2A of the House of Lords. Opening Comments by lord Alton The Current Situation The human...
International Scandal of 95 Detainees Held in one Cell – Including Children
International Scandal of 95 Detainees Held in one Cell - Including Children Earlier today, Friday September 4th, during a visit to Bangkok’s Detention Centre for Refugees, the British Independent Peer, David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool), met Pakistani Christians...
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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.
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. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th – the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI [London, 16 April 2024] Today, the APPG for Pakistani Minorities, a cross-party parliamentary...
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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...