http://ljmu.ac.uk/roscoelectures/97603.htm - Download and listen to the Roscoe Lectures Roscoe Lecture Series - 15 - Liverpool - 2012 Facing 21st Century Challenges Monday 13 February Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP, First Minister of Scotland St George’s Hall 5.00 p.m. “The...
Maamtrasna Murders and The Execution of An Innocent Man – commemorative event in Galway on Saturday December 15th.
Press Release: Embargo 1.00pm, 20th November 2012 Myles Joyce who was unjustly executed for his alleged part in the ‘Maamtrasna murders’ 130 years ago will be recalled at a commemorative event in Galway next month. He was convicted in connection with...
Forthcoming Talk on Active Citizenship – September 9th, Shotwick.
Friday 9th September 7.30pm Professor Lord David Alton will talk in Church on "Active Citizenship - Our Duty to Play our Part" David qualified as a teacher in 1972, working in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods, teaching immigrant children and later children with...
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...