Legislation: Great British Energy Bill - second readingLord Alton of Liverpool18th November 2024Second Reading debate: Energy Bill https://youtu.be/gPJiPIUzdVQ In congratulating and welcoming today’s Maiden Speeches may I also say how much I admire and like the noble...
Continuing to keep pressure on the U.K. Government to ensure that ISIS genocidaires in Iraq are brought to justice.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL10122): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have...
GENOCIDE: ALL OVER AGAIN IN DARFUR?INQUIRY INTO VIOLENCE IN DARFUR SINCE 2020 BY THE ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN
https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1650999878883893248?s=46&t=bdJwQ39bSducVkIUM4iJbQ The report finds the new waves of violence since 2020 include killings, the use of rape and sexual violence, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, the use of child...
Genocide Determination Bill given a Second Reading in the House of Lords as Peers Agree To Commit It To A Committee Of The Whole House For Further Consideration . Full debate-
Genocide Determination Bill given a Second Reading in the House of Lords as Peers Agree To Commit It To A Committee Of The Whole House For Further Consideration . Full debate- Second Reading https://youtu.be/pP7MIZsGhMQ 1.40pm Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool ...
China: UK must strengthen resilience, protect cutting-edge technology, and safeguard our research facilities.
In Parliament Lord Alton highlighted betrayal of the national interest, by allowing the UK's security, academia, technology, and political systems to be interfered with by the Chinese Communist Party. Look through the lens of Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Wuhan, or...
Washington DC Human Rights Conference This Week Focusing on Religious Freedom – Including Meeting On “Implementing The Duty to Prevent Genocide: Global Approaches’”
Travelling to Washington to speak at a human rights Summit on Religious Freedom. During the Conference I will take part in a session on 'Implementing The Duty to Prevent Genocide: Global Approaches' on 29th June between1:30 and 2:30 PM. I will speak on the failures of...
U.K. Statement at Security Council on Justice for victims of IS atrocities open to serious criticism – for what it doesn’t say.
The U.K. Statement to the UN Security Council on Delivering justice for the victims and survivors of ISIL atrocities missed the opportunity to call for the reform of the Security Council to remove the veto over referral of Genocide and atrocity crimes to the...
Today’s Urgent Question in The House of Commons on BBC Revelations Of Uyghur Mass Detention in Xinjiang. Despite demands from MPs the Government still fail to support Liz Truss’ use of the word Genocide.
12.31pm Ms Nusrat Ghani (Wealden) (Con) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if she will make a statement on the shocking revelations on the BBC by Professor Adrian Zenz that the internment camps in...
Writing from the Ukraine 🇺🇦 BBC’s Fergal Keane writes about the UN and history’s greatest broken promise – the failure to uphold the 1948 Convention on the Crime of Genocide or to break the relentless cycle of war crimes and atrocity crimes
Writing from the Ukraine 🇺🇦 BBC's Fergal Keane writes about the UN and history's greatest broken promise - the failure to uphold the 1948 Convention on the Crime of Genocide or to break the relentless cycle of war crimes and atrocity crimes Accounts of atrocities...
U.K. Government asked what plans they have to review their policy on genocide, further to Russia’s actions in Ukraine and the Prime Minister’s remarks during Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 March that President Putin’s actions amount to war crimes.
U.K. Government asked what plans they have to review their policy on genocide, further to Russia's actions in Ukraine and the Prime Minister's remarks during Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 March that President Putin's actions amount to war crimes Lord Ahmad of...
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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Lord Alton – Borders Bill – 26th June 2025.
Lord Alton made a speech on the Borders Bill urging Government to tackle the root causes of mass migration and displacement and to hit the smuggling gangs while upholding our obligation to protect the vulnerable. https://youtu.be/HLVBKjHRRpo Lord Alton of...
APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE31 May 2025 APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025 London, UK — The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities warmly welcomes the signing of the Islamabad...
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican’s embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights – and why, Hong Kong’s Venerable Cardinal, Joseph Zen, warned the Conclave’s voting Cardinals to avoid the whiff of red smoke.
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican's embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights - and why...