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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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...