The Jeweller

As a boy, growing up in Wadowice, Blessed John Paul II – Karol Wojtyla – wanted to be an actor and, as a teenager, he participated in the school theatre. In 1938 on enrolling at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University he was able to study drama until the Nazis ended classes...

Sterilisation, the Death of Women, and UK Taxpayer Funding

More than 20 women died in Peru during a period when the British Government provided more than £7.5 million to assist Peru with population and health measures. The British Government say it would not be "possible to disaggregate these figures further without incurring...

Darfur and Southern Kordofan…HART describes Nuba genocide

Questions on Sudan raised in Parliament this week...(July 11th - July 15th 2011) - Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the role of the United Nations Mission in Sudan during recent violence. HL11024 Lord Alton of...

Chen Guangchen Petition

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng’s health is in serious jeopardy because of repeated beatings and malnutrition he suffers in house detention. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and China Aid Association have called for urgent action to free Chen and his family. Women’s...

Pakistan and its minorities

Pakistan and its minorities In 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave a speech to the New Delhi Press Club, setting out the foundation principles of the fledgling State of Pakistan. Forcefully, he defended the right of minorities and the duty of the State to protect them:...

Lord David Alton

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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As senior officials in Hong Kong remain unsanctioned by the UK, Ministers say they have “urged the authorities” and HSBC Trustees to release savings of escapees; that “Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, enacted on 23 March is likely incompatible with international human rights law and will have a negative impact on the people of Hong Kong in the exercise of their rights and freedoms”; and have “noted the allegation that some evidence to be used to prosecute Jimmy Lai had been obtained through the torture of Andy Li.”

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3229): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to impose...

Reply to Question in Parliament about whether the UK Government will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily pay up to 15 years’ worth of Class 3 national insurance contributions towards a state pension, in cases where such visa holders have been denied access to their Mandatory Provident Fund pension savings by HSBC

Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Treasury, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3506): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will allow British National (Overseas) visa holders to voluntarily...

In advance of my oral question, scheduled to be asked in the House of Lords on April 17th,3 Parliamentary Replies on Putin’s War in Ukraine – bringing to justice those responsible for the Crime of Aggression and Reparations – including £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea FC.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3194): Question:To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations...