January 16th 2015 Further Debate on the Falconer Bill. Is this "assisted dying" or "assisted suicide"? Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=16956&st=11:22:46.3370000 My Lords, I will be brief because I did hear...
Strong parliamentary opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
Strong parliamentary opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
Why Britain Needs The Sharp Compassion of the Healer’s Art Maranatha Lecture October 3rd 2012. Manchester.
https://www.davidalton.net/media/ Click on this link for the power pont presentation which accompanies this lecture and which is in the Media section of the web site. Click on the linkbelow for a link to the video recording of the lecture:...
Human Rights – Human Life – Human Dignity – speech in Washington DC
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Rome Reports: Defending Life At Every Stage
Rome Reports interviews Lord David Alton on his work around human rights and the sanctity of human life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QeixBMUj5M
Starvation of incapacitated patients
Universe Column by David Alton It was deeply paradoxical that in the very week a shepherd was sentenced to six months in prison for not providing enough food and water for his sheep, some parliamentarians were insisting that it is lawful and ethical to starve to death...
A Matter Of Life And Death
By David Alton Universe Column Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that euthanasia is “an act of violence, an attempt to take possession of the future…even if euthanasia were legalised in some form and pragmatic anxieties overcome, it could not be a...
Government and Euthanasists Hand in Glove
Universe Column By David Alton Earlier this year the Lord Chancellor’s Department issued a consultation document, ‘Making Decisions: Helping People Who Have Difficulty Deciding For Themselves’. The deadline for submissions has now closed but I would like to share with...
The Mental Incapacity Bill
By David Alton Universe Column for August 17th 2003 In recent months my parliamentary colleague Baroness Finlay of Llandaff has emerged as one of the foremost voices protecting the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill from proposals to legalise euthanasia....
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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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...