Ewelina Ochab on the plight of Yazidis: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/04/03/let-the-children-be-yazidis/ April 16th Statement in Parliament on Syria Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, in the snake pit of competing interests and proxy wars...
Truth Should Speak To Power – the 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Act. Text of a Speech Delivered Outside Of The British Parliament On The 50th Anniversary Of Legislation That Has Claimed More Than 8 Million Lives. Ireland’s Response. Dr.Alveda King’s Statement. CARE for Life Meeting. Rob Flello On Why Labour Should Rethink.
Also see: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/martin.luther.kings.niece.in.abortion.protest.todays.unborn.babies.are.yesterdays.blacks/117304.htm https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155763270241054&id=586216053...
Frascati 2017 – Upholding Article 18. Genocide of Christians and Yazidis in Syria and Iraq. Persecution in Pakistan. Chemical Weapons Used In Sudan.
Click here for Presentation on the Upholding of Article 18 Frascati 2017 - FORB ========================================================================= Letter in the Daily Telegraph, August 11th 2017. July 4th 2017 Debate on the House of Lords Select Committee...
July 4th 2017 Debate on the House of Lords Select Committee Report on the Middle East “Time for New Realism”. The plight of Yazidis and Christians Facing Genocide in Syria and Iraq; Pesecution in Pakistan; Chemical Weapons in Sudan.
Also see: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/turkey-syriac-christians-fear-land-dispute.html#ixzz4loSLKLJ3...
Mesothelioma – and the threat to pupils and teachers in schools – Minister replies
Mesothelioma - and the threat to pupils and teachers in schools - March 2017 March 23rd 2017: Lord Nash, the Department for Education, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL6161): Question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government...
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...
North Korea Lost in the fog of assassinations and intrigue; Coercive population control; new report on Sudan launched; Mary’s Meals Founder received Westminster Award for Human Life, Human Rights and Human Dignity – plus posts on Europe’s lost 10,000 refugee children; speeches on Sudan and Syria; Kevin (Lord) Shinkwin’s Bill; Question on Trump Muslim ban; Speech on Dalits; Royal School Lecture on refugees…
North Korea 28 February 2017 Question 2.58 pm Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the sanctions imposed by China against North Korea following the assassination of Kim Jong-nam and the recent ballistic missile test,...
Successful Conclusion of Campaign To Provide BBC World Service Transmissions to The Korean Peninsula. Also reports on human rights violations in North Korea
Lord Alton of Liverpool, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea: As Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, I welcome today’s announcement by the BBC of a Korean-language World Service. The announcement follows many years...
Recent Parliamentary Interventions: Refugee Children; Travellers and Roma; Polygamous Marriages and protection of Muslim women; Shelter’s campaign on housing standards; Debate on Mesothelioma: 40,000 British people have died of this fatal disease – and continue to do so. Pressure Continues for a National Mesothelioma Research Centre
November 17th 2016: Shelter's Campaign on Housing Standards Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, the noble Lord rightly said that the 39 attributes of Shelter’s Living Home Standard are a useful benchmark against which to measure perceptions about the housing stock...
Senator Rónán Mullen on the Life and Times of Joseph Mary Plunkett – during the centenary year of the Irish Easter Uprising
Speech on Joseph Mary Plunkett, delivered at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, where Plunkett was educated Thursday, 29th September, 2016 ------------------------------------------- I see His Blood Upon The Rose I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory...
Sir Trevor Jones – Funeral Tribute at Liverpool Parish Church of Our Lady and St.Nicholas – may he rest in peace
Sir Trevor Jones Sir Trevor Jones: A Tribute. Owen Trevor Jones was born in Bootle on December 17th 1926. Aged 89, Sir Trevor died peacefully on September 9th 2016 – holding the hand of his beloved Doreen, his wife of 65 years – and with Glyn and...
The story of the Coming of Christianity to Korea and the story of the thousands who died for their faith – and new CSW Report on North Korea published on “Save North Koreans Day”.
At a ceremony in Rome where he received the St.Thomas More Advocacy Award, for his work on promoting freedom of religion and belief, David Alton particularly referred to the plight of North Korea's persecuted Christians. Here you can read the story of the coming...
Hillsborough – DPP Asked To Expedite Decision; Susan Hemming to take Final Decisions – Jury verdict of unlawful killing: The Hillsborough Independent Panel’s Investigation – and correspondence from 1989 with the Police Complaints Authority and Government Ministers. April 1989 intervention in the House of Commons. April 27th 2016 Statement in the House of Lords; April 29th letter to the Director of the Crown Prosecution Service
Hillsborough - Letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions, May 6th 2016: Susan Hemming to take final decisions: and reply: 060516 Letter to The Lord Alton of Liverpool Dear Mr.Okogwu I would be grateful if you would thank the Director for this...
Chancellor’s welcome Budget response on mesothelioma research centre – Military Veterans Compensation Victory – New Bill Given Second Reading – Full debate – Also: Why are servicemen and women excluded from help? – call in the House of Lords for an annual Impact statement to monitor the number of fatalities and progress on research into causes and cures
Chancellor's welcome Budget response on mesothelioma research centre: £5 million has been put into the Budget announced on March 16th for a National Mesothelioma Centre (see below), in response to the proposal we put forward from Imperial College: "The...
March 9th – International Women’s Day and North Korea. Westminster conference on the plight of North Korean women and girls.Parliamentary debate on the security and human rights challenges on the Korean Peninsula following North Korea’s recent nuclear test. Motion tabled by Fiona Bruce MP in the House of Commons.
Also see: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korean-defector-describes-life-in-auschwitz-like-prison-camp-a6961686.html March 9th - International Women's Day and North Korea: Speech by Fiona Bruce MP: As we mark...
Eric Avebury – May He Rest In Peace
Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury 29 September 1928–14 February 2016 Lord (Eric) Avebury has died. Eric Lubbock was known as “Orpington Man” after winning a remarkable by-election in 1962, holding the seat until 1970, when he then went to the House of...
Genocide Petition launched. House of Lords debate Genocide against Christians and Yazidis; Vote in the European Parliament; UN Report points to genocide. Council of Europe resolution. Presidential Candidates say Christians and Yazidis subject to genocide. U.S.Senate Resolution on genocide. House of Commons Motion, January 2016 and other reports.
https://adfinternational.org/2016/02/17/experts-on-genocide-in-middle-east-now-is-the-time-to-act - February 18th 2016 An electronic petition to Downing Street has been launched to "Declare the actions of Daesh against minorities as genocide" Daesh is...
December 2015 Latest Parliamentary Questions – Nigeria – Sudan – Genocide in Syria – Saudi Arabia – Yemen -North Korea – Dalits – “War Cry” interview on Refugees -December 22nd Speech on Refugees and asylum seekers
December 2015 "War Cry" Interview on the plight of Refugees. See:...
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...
One Child China – “One Child: the story of China’s Most Radical Experiment” China’s One Child Policy; a law that has claimed 8 million British lives: Amnesty International and its founder, Peter Benenson
ONE CHILD CHINA January 3rd 2016 - Sunday Times colour supplement: Extracts from Mei Fong's book "One Child: the story of China's Most Radical Experiment" (2016) One Child China - Part Aldous Huxley, part King Herod. Later, Longer, Fewer became, in the vocabulary of...
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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
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3877): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people...
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.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...