House of Lords, Short debate 15th November 2022 https://youtu.be/3I_p06a6CoE Lord Alton of Liverpool(CB)Share this specific contributionMy Lords, in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton, for both securing this debate and opening it so comprehensively and...
Here are four links to broadcast reports on Tigray (3 minutes each) broadcast by TV5 Monde this week. They were prepared by journalists Charles Emptaz and Olivier Jobard who visited Tigray last month – the only international television crew to visit Tigray since...
A letter from inside Tigray has been published online by Abba Melaku, a Spanish priest who lives in Wukro: https://isolidaries.org/es/angel-olaran-se-muestra-optimista-y-continua-sin-perder-la-esperanza/ (it is in Spanish, but Google translate can interpret)....
Tigray - Joint report from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch - “We Will Erase You From This Land’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone” Full report:...
Baroness Anelay’s Question on Ethiopia https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-04-04/debates/32379F88-C216-4246-A1A3-B65621FFB1F5/Ethiopia Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, is there not a grave danger that, under the cover of darkness provided by the situation...
House of Lords 6th January 2022Lord Alton of Liverpool to move that this House takes note of (1) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ estimate that 82.4 million people are displaced worldwide, 42 per cent of whom are children, and 32 per cent of whom are...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4444): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...