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September 2023 – Dublin Dinner To Celebrate The Gift of Life. Proposals to use AI to select and destroy “unsuitable” human embryos challenged: “This is AI led eugenics. We need instead Authentic Intelligence, Ethical Intelligence – not more eugenics.” “The supreme human right is the right to life – on which all other human rights are dependent.”

September 9th, 2023  Dublin PRO LIFE Dinner It is a pleasure to have been able to accept the invitation from Senator Ronan Mullen to be with you in Dublin tonight. Nothing is more important than the defence of life itself. After the 2018 Referendum the faint...

Euthanasia and the law of unintended consequences. Speech given in Seoul on how Euthanasia becomes a deadly and dangerous contagion which threatens the safety of the vulnerable, compromises medics, gets driven by economics, deeply affects society and becomes a runaway train.

https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1625114428449427457?s=46&t=PcPxpstvx9j7yrAJdj2eyg I Euthanasia and the law of unintended consequences. Speech given in Seoul on how Euthanasia becomes a deadly and dangerous contagion which threatens the safety of the...

The Right To Life and Human Rights in North Korea – Speech by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) at a meeting in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Hosted by the ROK Government’s Ministry of Reunification- in the 10th anniversary year of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into North Korea which found evidence of State involvement in crimes against humanity.

The Right To Life and Human Rights in North Korea Speech by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) at a meeting in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Hosted by the ROK Government.  Friday February 10th 2023. 75 years ago, in 1948, the world was...

Speech given in House of Lords China Debate: October 20th.

Speech given in House of Lords China Debate: October 20th.

https://youtu.be/ca5GQduSrZc Speech given in China Debate: October 20th. I declare my interests as VC of the All-Party Groups on Uyghurs and Hong Kong. I am a Patron of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China. Notwithstanding...

The WSJ Argues That The Supreme Court Has Reclaimed Its Legitimacy. Yes, and it has reclaimed its authority- by revisiting bad law. Now we will see if people who say they believe in the rule of law are willing to abide by it.

The WSJ Argues That The Supreme Court Has Reclaimed Its Legitimacy. Yes, and it has reclaimed its authority- by revisiting bad law. Now we will see if people who say they believe in the rule of law are willing to abide by it. The Supreme Court Reclaims Its Legitimacy...

Blackburn Cathedral Festival – Keynote Address

Volodymyr Zelensky and The Campaigners Against Slavery Teach Us About The Place Of Faith And Belief In Public Life It’s a great pleasure to join you for your Festival of Faith. I particularly warm to the challenge set by the Dean to talk about how faith can make a...

“Since 2002, in the Lords, I have challenged the CCP’s one child policy on over 50 occasions- and on dozens of times in the Commons since it’s introduction in 1980. One Minister swore at me for doing so as the U.K. went on funding it through reproductive rights programmes. Now at last the CCP policy is being openly challenged in China.”

House of Lords debate 2002- Extracts from a speech by Lord Alton “That programme followed another broadcast by BBC2 called "Women of the Yellow Earth". Both programmes highlighted how forced abortion, forced sterilisation and the forcible fitting of IUCDs for women...

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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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Questions to the Government about Transparency Where Ministers Need To Recuse Themselves Because Of Conflicting Interests. They confirm that they will respond to the Information Commissioner’s Office’s Practice Recommendations on FOI Requests By 31 May 2024

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4061): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what steps the Foreign, Commonwealth and...