Opinion: We can’t fight climate change using forced labor in China Opinion by Josh Rogin Columnist June 24, 2021 WASHINGTON POST President Biden says climate change is the “number one issue facing...
Today’s Daily Telegraph reports in the enforced closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily. Dominic Raab condemns “silencing of all opposition voices
Dominic Raab condemns “silencing of all opposition voices”
Yes to solar energy, No to forcing Uyghur slave labour to produce it. Washington Post: Solar industry’s ties to China’s Xinjiang region raise specter of forced labour
Yes to solar energy, No to forcing Uyghur slave labour to produce it. Washington Post: Solar industry’s ties to China’s Xinjiang region raise specter of forced labour Solar industry’s ties to China’s Xinjiang region raise specter of forced labor Lily Kuo, Pei...
U.K. local authorities will review contracts for CCTV equipment from Hikvision, the Chinese tec firm. The Communities Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP, should require all local authorities to provide details of deals with Chinese companies and demand to see whether subsidised lowest bids for council developments have undercut unsubsidised U.K. companies.
Sunday Telegraph June 20th 2021 Today’s Sunday Telegraph has revealed that U.K. local authorities will review contracts for CCTV equipment from Hikvision, the Chinese tec firm, black listed in the US but not the U.K. The company has been accused of helping to build...
It is because of stories like this one about Yerzhan Kurman in today’s Telegraph- electrocuted with cattle prods, forced to sing Communist Party songs, and turned into slave labour – that tomorrow I am introducing my Private Members’ Bill on supply chain transparency.
It is because of stories like this one about Yerzhan Kurman in today’s Telegraph- electrocuted with cattle prods, forced to sing Communist Party songs, and turned into slave labour - that tomorrow I am introducing my Private Members’ Bill on supply chain...
Sunday Times report: “Fearful Hongkongers prepare for a secretive exodus from China crackdown” – with August 1 deadline looming. Echoes of August 1961.
Berlin - August 1961 On another August day - August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the East Germany began building a barbed wire and concrete “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. It followed the exodus of more than 16,000 people during the first...
Uyghur Genocide – Faith Leaders tell G7 Leaders to strengthen the international rules based order and response to Uyghur Genocide: “Despite the ever-growing evidence of the atrocities, the response from the international community continues to be inadequate.”
President of the United States, Mr Joe Biden Prime Minister of Italy, Mr Mario Draghi Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr Boris Johnson President of the European Commission, Ms Ursula von der Leyen President of France, Mr Emmanuel Macron Chancellor of Germany, Ms...
Important analysis by John Gray in The New Statesman on why the debate about whether the Covid pandemic began in a Wuhan laboratory matters so much.
https://www.newstatesman.com/2021/06/china-s-covid-cover-wuhan-lab-leak Important analysis by John Gray in The New Statesman on why the debate about whether the Covid pandemic began in a Wuhan laboratory matters so much.
Today’s Telegraph reports on 16,000 Uyghur Mosques Being Destroyed or Damaged in Xinjiang – and being replaced by a Hilton Hotel and offices – as CCP seeks to destroy identity, religion and culture. Their journalists were physically attacked while documenting their report.
Xinjiang- a Surveillance State which is trying to destroy identity and replace it with CCP ideology Today’s Telegraph reports on Uyghur Mosques Being Destroyed in Xinjiang
Following the recent arrest of Chinese bishop, Joseph Zhang Weizhu, The Universe newspaper reports on the CCP’s deepening religious persecution and on the strong response from CSW
Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu Following the recent arrest of Chinese bishop, Joseph Zhang Weizhu, The Universe newspaper reports on the CCP’s deepening religious persecution Bishop Zhang Weizhu
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...