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Pilgrim Ways - David Alton Other Resources: Catholic Central Library : Lancing Street, London NW1 1ND Telephone  :  020 7383 4333 Email : librarian@catholic-library demon co.uk Website : www.catholic-library demon co.uk Living Churchyards (church and Conservation...

David Alton Website

People regularly get in touch to ask for background and information about some of the issues in which I am involved. I am extremely grateful to the volunteers - principally Gregory Nash - who decided to make it easier to answer those enquiries by creating this web...

Spoken Interventions in the House of Lords

To read the details of the following interventions in House of Lords debates and questions please click on this link: TheyWorkForYou Website Results 1-20 of 406 items spoken by Lord Alton of Liverpool in Commons debates or Westminster Hall debates or Lords debates or...

Written Questions In the House of Lords

To read the details of the following written questions in the House of Lords, since March 2000, please click on the link below: Then click on the question and the answer will also be given:http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=13103&s=section%3Awrans&pop=1...

Day of Prayer for Sudan

Universe Column David Alton June 14th 2009. Last week I warned that the murderous campaign which, over the past two decades, has claimed more than two million lives in Southern Sudan will be repeated in Nigeria. The redoubtable Baroness (Caroline) Cox, and her charity...

Three Columns on North Korea

Sunday 22nd February 2009 On returning from two weeks on the Korean Peninsular - in both North and South Korea - I remain convinced that there is a historic opportunity to end one of the world's longest running conflicts. This is the unfinished business of the 1950 to...

World Food Crisis

Universe Column Sunday July 6th 2008 David Alton Last month's world food summit in Rome was overshadowed by the bizarre decision to allow Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and two hundred of his henchmen to break the European Union travel embargo that restricts their...

Burma and the Winds of Change

Universe Column Sunday June 1st Following the catastrophic effects of Cyclone Nargis on the people of Burma, the first instinct of decent men and women was to look for a humanitarian and compassionate response. The first instinct of the Burmese military regime was to...

Why We Need A National Bioethics Commission

The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has remarked that "We have had, generally, in this country a deficit of medical ethics". The truth of that comment has been borne out in the debates on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill. Along with...

10 million Under 5s Die each year – Time To Act

Universe Column Save the Children recently published a damning report on the level of infant mortality worldwide: "Saving Children's Lives - Why Equity Matters" The stark facts make for chilling reading. Some 10 million children die under the age of five every year:...

Lord David Alton

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

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...