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 who decided to make it easier to answer those enquiries by creating this web site.
In addition to human rights reports which I have authored following visits to places like Burma, North Korea, Congo, Sudan and Darfur, there are copies of speeches and articles about a variety of issues. These include some of the contributions I made during my 18 years in the House of Commons and since my appointment to the Lords in 1997. If you, yourself, feel strongly about some of these issue – for instance, euthanasia, forced abortion and sterilisation of women in China, genocide in Burma and Darfur, or human cloning – there are also details of groups you can contact in order to take appropriate action.
The site also has links to organisations with which I work and some biographical details.
Thank you for visiting the site. I hope you find it of interest.
David Alton
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We, Koreans, want to be respectful and show admiration for UK Parliament who is contributing to create a more prosperous, healthier and better world such as the improvemet of human rights in North Korea. Thank you!
Dear Lord Alton,
You appear to be one of the few people taking an interest in the famine in North Korea. Why is it that famine in North Korea is less newsworthy than elsewhere ? It is particularly tragic as the witnesses to atrocities committed during the Korean War and their children / grandchildren are now also victims of famine. This situation has all the appearances of pure evil – surely there is a christian responsibility to act in a situation such as this ? How do we proceed ?
Hi David from the Wild west coast of Ireland
I’m returning to Liverpool early in the New Year to make a retrospective radio series looking back on my Liverpool of the eighties.
As one of the architects of the modern Liverpool we can all be proud of I would love to interview you.
Would you be willing to take part?
Dear David
Nearly three years ago I heard you speak at Celebrate about the persecution of Christians which until then I had not fully registered was ongoing rather than fixed in history. As a result I applied to work as a diocesan representative for Aid to the Church in Need which I have now,been doing for two and a half years. I am speaking at a school on Thursday to share stories as you did and to gather the young people in prayer for the persecuted church. In planning my talk, I found myself recalling your witness. I love this work. It’s a huge privilege to me and I wanted to let you know your part in underlining the need for encouraging solidarity with the persecuted church.
With grateful thanks to you
Elizabeth
You show us the destructive trends in our society and shine a light on the world’s dark places. And always positive in attitude, with never a word wasted. We are in your debt.
Thank you for your continuous work for persecuted people in North Korea. I watched your interview with south korean broadcaster about Father Lee Tae-Suk.
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The full consequences of Margaret Thatcher’s endless privatisation programme seem to be dawning on people at last. The current generation appear to have started to appreciate that private capital has to be policed and has no automatic compulsion to uphold the law or any accepted moral code only their self-interest. Private capital frequently and publicly challenges elected national authority and their colleagues in the media give them a platform to do so. Do we have to wait in cycles of decades for people to realise this eternal truth over and over again ? The criminals greatest friend appears to be public ignorance – we need thinkers – thank god that the church has some !
Dear Mr.Alton,
I am writing on behalf of our organisation, Eyes Open Creative. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise campaigning against the grooming, sexual exploitation and trafficking of young people and children in the UK. Through our current campaign ‘My Dangerous Loverboy’ we hope to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation on a NATIONAL scale, and to offer high quality preventative education resources to teachers, practitioners and young people.
Our vision to tackle CSE comes at a time when it has never been more prominent; with the release of a national Action Plan by the government to tackle CSE and this week’s campaign against teenage rape launched by Nick Clegg. We really want to get the word out there about our organisation and our training resource- the only one of its kind in the UK. Can you help us?
Claire
Thank you so much for your swift reply to my email from ‘writetothem’. On reading this website I remember you from many years ago. I am a part of the international house of prayer in London. http://www.ihoplondon.org which is a prayer room in Willesden Junction aiming to be 24/7. We frequently and regularly pray for the government here in UK. May God continue to abundantly bless you in all you do.
I read a very good article in the Universe yesterday written by yourself.It was only on reflection that I linked the authors name to your website that I had been previously directed to by way of the Brentwood Diocese’s Justice and Peace Commision in regards to the House of Commons debate on assisted suicide (27/3/2012).Our local MP was contacted concerning the motion tabled and asked to consider the issues you highlighted.
In reflection on the Universe article of yours entitled ‘Put pursuit of truth at the heart of our lives’ (1/4/2012) it was comforting to see such an insightful philosophical analysis offered up in the analogy of Pilate’s “What is truth” framed against the modernity of Nietzsche’s assertions.It is so often insinuated that moral relativity originated out of the Enlightenment period and through it’s ensuing philosophical projects that it is refreshing to observe the concept in a much earlier context.However, I do have reservations about globilisation being the ‘new Roman Empire’ per se with the deterministic characteristics that entails after reading the potentials for positive change enshrined in the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace last year.
Dear Lord Alton,
I have just read on Thinking Faith your article about Liverpool and the Titanic and was delighted to learn details which were completely new to me. I’m originally from Huyton but have for nearly 20 years been working as a missionary in El Salvador. My parents often spoke grievingly of the Titanic but they obviously didn’t know the whole story. Many years ago I was a pupil at Broughton Hall as was another of our Sisters now working in the USA., so this obviously added to the interest…..and the nostalgia. Thank you for the very interesting and valuable information. Wishing you every blessing on your mission, Barbara Dundon
David, many thanks for the very human story about an aspect of the Titanic voyage – We here in Australia are commemorationg the demise of so many people too and TV and films are available aplenty.
There is also a story about Fr Brown sj which bears repeating as well. I remember only the bare bones of it but he was ordered off the Titanic in Queenstown, I beleive, by his Jesuit superiors – which is why we have the photos of life aboard the Titanic.
We have just had Holy Week and considered again the meaning of the Last Supper – I hope that the famines in Korea and elsewhere can form part of our christian thinking as we contemplate their cause.
It is urgent that Egypts’ Copts be saved from mass murder. The more attention that is given this matter the better. Millions are now at risk of violent death.
I sent you two poems to the House a number of years ago and one was titled Jenny. It showed two lives, One of the aborted child and one of the born child. I did get a nice reply from you and still wonder to this day if you kept them or if you still reflect on them. I totally agree as does my wife with your drive against abortion and we so admire your work in this field. God bless you and your family for all the work you do. we Live in Merseyside and are so proud of you.
i especially enjoyed your talk at strathmore university at the ethics conference. it was really enlightening and magnificently touched on the current issues in our world. simply touching.
Dear Lord Alton i Would just like to thank you for alerting to the re-emerging of the abortion matter, and I want you to know that I admire all that you are doing to tackle the abortion problem and I care about the same matters as you. God bless you. Susan Lavender
I feel very much sad about the suffering of pakistani minority! Before they are wipedout there must be some actions from people all over the world.
Dear Lord Alton
Just wanted to thank you for your talks at the Celebrate Conference in Ilfracombe, like many before me on this message board, you have opened my eyes to the suffering Christians and minority groups around the world. I pray that God continues to bless and strengthen you in all your efforts, and may God bless you twice over for how you bless us with your and talks and presentations.
Alcan
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