Pressed the Government today not to relax things like travel restrictions on Taliban while women are denied a university education and while minorities like the persecuted Hazara continue to face genocidal attacks.11th January 2022 Lord Alton of Liverpool(CB) My...
U.K. will “continue to press the Taliban to uphold human rights”.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2772): Question:To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the searches conducted by the...
Afghanistan: “I came home from school to find that the Taliban killed my parents”.
A girl looks on among Afghan women lining up to receive relief assistance, Women who refuse to comply to Taliban ideology are persecuted - as are minorities such as Hazaras, Ahmadis, Christians, Sikhs and LGBTQAfghanistan Under the Taliban: "I came home from school to...
Arise Trustee David Alton appeals for protection for the Hazaras – a Shia minority trapped in Afghanistan and targeted by the Taliban because of their faith.
https://vimeo.com/604811023 https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/O3zuC2xK5Cwop25SQU4Wr?domain=foundation.us15.list-manage.com Arise Trustee David Alton appeals for protection for the Hazaras - a Shia minority trapped in Afghanistan and targeted by the Taliban because of...
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
Foreign Office today says it is “working hard with others to hold the Taliban to their promise to allow safe passage out of Afghanistan…”
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Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s, former ambassador to the United States, says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” .
Three thoughtful essays on Afghanistan by Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States. He says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” perpetuating dysfunction at home and locking it into a...
Government fails to specify how the new £286 million aid package for Afghanistan will be used.
Government fails to specify how the new £286 million aid package for Afghanistan will be used; whether delivery of that aid will be contingent on the Taliban demonstrating that there have been no revenge killings or imprisonment of their political opponents; on girls'...
Taliban attack tortured and killed nine Hazara men.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Afghanistan: Taliban responsible for brutal massacre of Hazara men – new investigation Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last month, Amnesty International...
Afghanistan – House of Lords debate
In Parliament today I was struck that twenty years after 9:11 we have given the Taliban a free pass and opened the way for a new wave of terror - inspired by a medieval theocratic ideology that cherishes violence, degrades women, trades in lethal drugs, persecutes...
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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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
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...