House of Lords Report points to “inconsistencies, uncertainty and lack of a central strategy” in UK government relations with China". The Inquiry heard reports of genocide in Xinjiang and says "the Government should incorporate an atrocity prevention lens in its...
Bizarre admission by Africa Minister that he is “not aware of any substantiated evidence that extremist Islamist ideology is a driver of intercommunal attacks.”
Bizarre admission by Africa Minister that he is “not aware of any substantiated evidence that extremist Islamist ideology is a driver of intercommunal attacks.” On what planet are he and his officials living? In a letter, the Africa Minister, James Duddridge MP , says...
Debate on Sub Saharan Africa: “Unless conflict is addressed, development will continue to be blighted.” “We should be less timid in confronting the destructive power of ideology.”
Debate on Sub Saharan Africa: “Unless conflict is addressed, development will continue to be blighted.” “We should be less timid in confronting the destructive power of ideology and naming it for what it is.” https://youtu.be/pJG-lLbrm2c Watch Lord Alton's...
Written Questions Tabled in Parliament: Tigray, Iran, China, Hikvision, Taliban, Faulty PPE, plus Balloted Motion on slave labour, child labour and exploited labour in supply chains
Written Questions Tabled in Parliament: Tigray, Iran, China, Hikvision, Taliban, Faulty PPE, plus Balloted Motion on slave labour, child labour and exploited labour in supply chains
UK Trade Minister Liz Truss should respond positively to an appeal to G7 Trade Ministers. The letter highlights 25 million people in the world being exploited in forced labour and human trafficking which generates $150 billion
UK Trade Minister Liz Truss should respond positively to an appeal to G7 Trade Ministers. The letter highlights 25 million people in the world being exploited in forced labour and human trafficking which generates $150 billion from the crime of trafficking: "Egregious...
Setting up a Committee doesn’t seem like much of a response to genocide – and it shouldn’t take eight months to say it. Which clearly suits Sir Humphrey and the FCDO.
Setting up a Committee doesn't seem like much of a response to genocide - and it shouldn't take eight months to say it. The fundamental problem remains that no UK Court is empowered to determine Genocide and the perpetrators of Genocide veto referrals to the...
Turkey air attacks on Sinjar – in Iraq – leads to more Yazidis deaths.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/turkish-airstrikes-claim-yazidi-lives-iraqs-sinjar Turkey air attacks on Sinjar - in Iraq - leads to more Yazidis deaths. UK Minister says "We believe Turkey has a legitimate right to defend itself against the PKK?" How is...
Foreign Office today says it is “working hard with others to hold the Taliban to their promise to allow safe passage out of Afghanistan…”
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of WimbledonMinister of State for South Asia and the CommonwealthPrime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in ConflictKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AHTel: 0207 008 5000House of LordsLondonSW1A 0AAwww.gov.uk/fcdoOur ref:5...
Tigray – Africa Minister responds to representations about the situation at Mekelle University.
The Lord Alton of LiverpoolHouse of Lords LondonSW1A 0PW 2 September 2021 Dear Lord AltonThank you for your correspondence of 23 July, about situation at the Mekelle University in Tigray Ethiopia. I am replying as the Minister for Africa.The Foreign Secretary raised...
Writing in today’s Times Alistair Carmichael MP Chairman, all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong says “it is unconscionable for British judges to continue their involvement in Hong Kong’s courts.
HONG KONG JUSTICE Sir, Further to your report (“Top judge ‘being used’ to aid China’s agenda in Hong Kong”, News, Aug 28), it is all too clear, more than one year since the Beijing-imposed national security law, that Hong Kong’s judiciary has been...
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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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...
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...