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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
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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:...
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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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.
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Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th – the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder
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Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...