Debate on Sub Saharan Africa: “Unless conflict is addressed, development will continue to be blighted.” “We should be less timid in confronting the destructive power of ideology and naming it for what it is.” https://youtu.be/pJG-lLbrm2c Watch Lord Alton's...
UK Trade Minister Liz Truss should respond positively to an appeal to G7 Trade Ministers. The letter highlights 25 million people in the world being exploited in forced labour and human trafficking which generates $150 billion from the crime of trafficking: "Egregious...
A research team of Mekelle University and UGent says that conflict in Tigray will mean in that area of Tigray only 20-50% of the farmland will produce reasonable outputs - well below what is required to sustain the local population in a subsistence farming economy A...
SUDAN: 67 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS CALL ON THE SOVERIGNTY COUNCIL TO TRANSFER ICC INDICTIEES TO THE HAGUE Sovereign Council and Council of Ministers, Republic of the SudanHis Excellency Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, Republic of the Sudan Nasredeen...
The United States has placed Magnitsky sanctions on the Commander of the Eritrean Defense Forces, Chief of Staff General Filipos Woldeyohannes, for major human rights abuses committed during the continuing conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. The US authorised these...
UK Africa Minister says "We have urged the governments of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt to find agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam." Tigray: Letter from Africa Minister says UK is "working closely with humanitarian organisations to make sure aid reaches...
In my youth, this powerful and disturbing single image - Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut’s photograph of a naked girl running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War - came to define that moment and to disturb consciences. And images of starving Nigerian children caught up...
Don’t lock out anyone from Covid 19 Vaccines Read the full debate at: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-10-26/debates/A00A2D14-3F6A-4FD6-8DE6-E23CF750A43B/MedicinesAndMedicalDevicesBill Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, in her prescient, topical and...
Earlier Today- Horrendous Massacre of Innocents in Anglophone Cameroon Massacre in Kumba: Shock, consternation and tears as amba fighters kill 7 kids in school -What kind of people do a thing like this? Extremists secessionists are reported as having invading a...
The Report of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Select Committee "UK and Sub-Saharan Africa: prosperity, peace and development co-operation" was published this morning. It...
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...
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...
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...