David Alton taking evidence in a Burmese village where the homes and mosques of Muslim villagers had been fire bombed one night earlier Lord Alton of Liverpool - To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to implement the proposals contained in the...
Burma's Generals Have Been Drinking In The Last Chance Saloon For Too Long. Now They will be subject to Magnitsky Sanctions For What They Have Done To the Rohingya, Kachin, Karen, and other Minorities. Report in the Myanmar Times:...
Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking - update on the latest amendments and debates on the Modern Day Slavery Bill Scroll down for earlier stages and background to this legislation: Report Stage amendment on Supply Chain Transparency: Lord Alton of...
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Religious Freedom in Burma: June 19th 2013 Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has responded to three Written Questions tabled by Crossbench Peer and Vice-Chair of the APPG on International Religious Freedom, Lord Alton, on the subject of Rohingya Muslims. In the...
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:...
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Immediately after Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic address to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall on 21 June, a small ceremony took place in Speaker’s House. Clad in full academic regalia, several of us from Liverpool John Moores University, including our former...
Immediately after Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic address to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall on 21 June, a small ceremony took place in Speaker’s House. Clad in full academic regalia, several of us from Liverpool John Moores University, including our former...
With Andy Li During The Hong Kong Elections In the U.K. Parliament I have again asked the U.K. Government what information they have on the wellbeing of the 12 young prodemocracy activists from Hong Kong, arrested by China. I asked whether the U.K. has asked China to...
Grandma Wong urges the world to support the Hong Kong 12 - denied access to their lawyers and families. It is a fundamental principle that an accused person has the right to have access to a lawyer. Yet China’s Ministry of Justice has ordered at least five lawyers not...
In a letter from Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the UK Minister of State and Prime Minister's Special Envoy, he says the UK "Government strongly condemns child, early and forced marriage; as well as forced conversion of women and girls in Pakistan, including from religious...
Yes Moved by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Share 24: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert— “(o) the origin and treatment of human tissue used in the process of developing and manufacturing medicines.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment adds...