Today’s Guardian, Tigray- The warning signs are there for genocide in Ethiopia – the world must act to prevent it -Helen Clark, Michael Lapsley and David Alton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/26/ethiopia-genocide-warning-signs-abiy-ahmed Genocide...
Tigray – UK’s New Africa Minister Vicky Ford raises deep concerns over “human rights abuses.”
Vicky Ford MPMinister for AfricaKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AHLord AltonHouse of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW5 October 2021 Dear Lord Alton Thank you for your correspondence of 20 March about the situation in Ethiopia. I am replying as the Minister for Africa. I apologise...
Tigray: “At least 400,000 people had crossed the threshold of famine.”
This article "Conditions in the peace prize laureate's country"- detailing the appalling suffering in Tigray - has been published in the Norway's Aftenposten "Children die of starvation. The doctors who are trying to save them are fainting from food shortages"...
Government responds to Daily Telegraph reports that ethnic cleansing and atrocity crimes against Tigrayans have been committed in the Ethiopian city of Humera.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2467): Question:To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports in the Daily Telegraph on 5 September that ethnic...
Tigray: September 19th 2021 – Translation of disturbing video report by journalists from Tigray TV on famine in Tigray
Translation of video by journalists from Tigray TV (see link below) on famine in Tigray (19 September 2021) https://www.facebook.com/VoT2025/videos/543758023351827 1st mother with her three children says “Look this child is ill, he cannot stand, he cannot sit. We...
Breaking our own law on resources for the poorest people in the world we have broken our word and broken trust.
All over the world countries look to the U.K. to set an example. By breaking our own law on resources for the poorest people in the world we have broken our word and broken trust. It’s a decision which the UK Parliament should be given the chance to debate and...
Telegraph reports that an air strike on a village market place in Tigray has killed at least 64 people and injured 200 others including children. Just like the political leaders deny they have created starvation they are now denying that they killed civilians
Telegraph reports that an air strike on a village market place in Tigray has killed at least 64 people and injured 200 others including children. Just like the political leaders deny they have created starvation they are now denying that they killed civilians
U.K. says it welcomes the recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur in his report on the situation in Eritrea but fails to say what steps they will take to ensure the UN Security Council supports the work of Dr.Mohamed Babiker.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL697): Question:To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure the UN Security Council supports...
UK asked how it intends to respond to the Report of Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, the UN Special Rapporteur, on the situation of human rights in Eritrea.
UK asked how it intends to respond to the Report of Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, the UN Special Rapporteur, on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. The U.K. Government needs to urgently respond to the shocking catalogue of egregious human rights violations...
House of Lords Library Briefing On Next Thursday’s Debate on Bringing The Perpetrators of Genocide To Justice. Background posts on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Rohingya in Burma, Tigray, Nigeria, Yezidis, and Armenians.
House of Lords Library Briefing On Next Thursday's Debate on Bringing The Perpetrators of Genocide To Justice. Background posts on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Rohingya in Burma, Tigray, Nigeria, Yezidis, and Armenians. image by Kuzzat Altay on Unsplash...
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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