Why I Voted Against the Changes To Tax Credits: Letter to The Observer newspaper: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/24/letters-tax-credits-families-suffer On Monday the House of Lords debates the introduction of changes to the tax credit system that will...
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Parliamentary reply: 3707 unaccompanied refugee children have gone missing. The UK should not say they are not welcome here. 2015 The Year of the Refugees – “just put yourself in their shoes” – Full House of Lords debate and Government response. And a view from a North Korean refugee.
Why is the UK not providing refuge for unaccompanied children fleeing Syria? They say "Making an exception for children makes little sense" . This is not about "numbers" but about the most vulnerable and the most at risk. Last year some 13,026 children arrived...
2015 Queens Speech Debate – the cruel ideology of Daesh and their orgy of violence in Iraq and Syria
5.40 pm: Thursday May 28th 2015 Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, in welcoming the talented team of Ministers who have responsibility for international affairs and security issues, it is clear from the debate today on the gracious Speech that there are no...
Archive 2 – more indexed archived speeches and articles.
Also see: https://www.davidalton.net/2014/07/31/archive-indexed-miscellaneous-articles-and-columns/ Speech on the BBC’s Role in Society – 2003 A speech on the withdrawal of food and fluids from patients 2003 Coercive Population Control in China – 2001 Speech by Lord...
Archive – indexed miscellaneous articles and columns
Miscellaneous archived columns on the following subjects: Abortion and the right to know Paying a price for courage Politicians and how they vote on ethical issues 30 years of abortion in the UK Abortion and the possible link with breast cancer Joanna Jepson’s fight...
BBC World Service, British Council, The Use of Soft Power, and the Promotion of British Values and Interests Overseas
BBC World Service and British Council http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/140710-0001.htm#14071063000823 Motion to Take Note 12.27 pm July 10th 2014 Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool To move that this House takes note of the role of the BBC...
The Case For A Greater Liverpool Combined Authority
The Case For A Greater Liverpool Combined Authority Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Storey, not least because in the 1970 general election, what seems like a million years ago now, we were both students and...
Paying A Price For Belief – the Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIS and face execution. Also, recent parliamentary interventions and the paltry sum we set aside to promote freedom of religion and belief
Also see: July 1st 2015 article on the targeting of Christians worldwide: http://www.geopolitical-info.com/en/article/1435726790089290800 8.01 pm: Thursday June 25th, 2015 Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, Syria is the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our...
Syria's Suffering Continues Unabated While Minorities are Targeted – Christians forced to special pay taxes to militant Islamist group: "Today in Raqqa and tomorrow in Rome" – 75 year-old-Jesuit murdered in Homs
Syria's Suffering Continues Unabated while Minorities are Targeted ACN News: Friday, 11th April 2014 – UK/INTERNATIONAL With pictures of Lord Alton of Liverpool at the Aid to the Church in Need Lenten vigil service for the Suffering Church in Syria, at the Immaculate...
Syria’s Suffering Continues Unabated While Minorities are Targeted – Christians forced to special pay taxes to militant Islamist group: “Today in Raqqa and tomorrow in Rome” – 75 year-old-Jesuit murdered in Homs
Syria's Suffering Continues Unabated while Minorities are Targeted ACN News: Friday, 11th April 2014 – UK/INTERNATIONAL With pictures of Lord Alton of Liverpool at the Aid to the Church in Need Lenten vigil service for the Suffering Church in Syria, at the Immaculate...
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DEBATED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
On November 22nd 2013 the House of Lords debated the following Motion on Human Rights Violations. The link takes you to the recording of the parliamentary debate and the text of the debate appears below. Video of the debate can be found...
Mind The Gap – Keynote Speech to CSAN Conference on Poverty – June 2013 – and Narrowgate Emergency Night Shelter Salford Closed Following changes to the Housing Benefit rules
Interview on the Increasing Poverty Gap In Britain: www.premier.org.uk/hearttoheart See also Archbishop Vincent Nichols: <a href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22745"> CSAN Conference, London Keynote Speech, 12 June 2013 David Alton: ...
Chen Guagncheng's Visit To the UK – Chen is presented with the Westminster Award for Human Rights, Human Life and Human Dignity. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Issues Joint Statement with Chen.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng issued a joint statement calling for international leaders to confront China on their human rights violations...
Chen Guagncheng’s Visit To the UK – Chen is presented with the Westminster Award for Human Rights, Human Life and Human Dignity. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Issues Joint Statement with Chen.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng issued a joint statement calling for international leaders to confront China on their human rights violations...
MOTEC come to Westmisnter to Launch their NUWLIFE project for tackling malnurishment among children in Ghana's Upper Western Region of Jirapa
Link to Launch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdAuw-4KyU Link to Support for MOTEC and its work in Ghana... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbw8noQ4rUI David Alton - Patron of Motec MOTEC celebrated May Day with a reception at Westminster to Launch their NUWLIFE...
MOTEC come to Westmisnter to Launch their NUWLIFE project for tackling malnurishment among children in Ghana’s Upper Western Region of Jirapa
Link to Launch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdAuw-4KyU Link to Support for MOTEC and its work in Ghana... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbw8noQ4rUI David Alton - Patron of Motec MOTEC celebrated May Day with a reception at Westminster to Launch their NUWLIFE...
North Korea Freedom Week – New book was launched at House of Lords on May 21st and published on May 24th
Listen to Vanish The Night by Ooberfuse (featuring the voice of Shin Dong Hyok who was born in Camp 14 and witnessed the execution of his mother and brothers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7WTX_z_E8&feature=share See also:...
China's One Child Policy : Official Figures reveal that 336 million women have been aborted; 37 million more men than women as campaign of gendercide unbalances the population.
A shocking report in The Financial Times has finally revealed the true extent of China’s one child policy – a policy which has resulted in a massive imbalance between young men and women and which has targeted girls babies in a relentless campaign of gendercide. Over...
China’s One Child Policy : Official Figures reveal that 336 million women have been aborted; 37 million more men than women as campaign of gendercide unbalances the population.
A shocking report in The Financial Times has finally revealed the true extent of China’s one child policy – a policy which has resulted in a massive imbalance between young men and women and which has targeted girls babies in a relentless campaign of gendercide. Over...
Food Bank Britain, Sharp Elbowed Britain, and Devil Take the Hindmost Britain is not the kind of country of which any of us can be proud
Food Bank Britain, sharp elbowed Britain, and Devil take the Hindmost Britain is not the kind of country of which any of us can be proud Today's Lords debates - Thursday 17 January 2013 Taxation: FamiliesMotion to Take Note 11.41 am Moved by Baroness Hollis of Heigham...
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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2024 Hong Kong Symposium: British Hong Kongers are the Advance Guard In the Battle Between Dictatorship and Democracy.
Giving the Closing address at this year's 3-day Hong Kong Symposium David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) thanked Finn Lau, the Chair of the Symposium and the Steering committee for organising such a well attended and successful event. Lord Alton described the British...
Female genital mutilation in The Gambia raised with The Gambia’s Foreign Minister
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3714): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are working with the United Nations and...
UK aid supporting minorities in Pakistan – short debate House of Lords 25th April 2024. Full Text of Speeches and Recording of Debate
Lords Grand CommitteeThursday 25 April 2024 Full debate: https://youtu.be/VMSZpOq_oyk Lord Alton of Liverpool:I am grateful to all noble lords participating in today’s short debate about ways in which UK development aid to Pakistan- rising from £41.5 million this...