The world’s attention has recently been focused on the plight of Chen Guangcheng, the blind civil and human rights activist. Chen was jailed for four years after challenging China’s one child policy. After his release Chen was put under house arrest. Then, in...
Two Papers Given To The All Party Parliamentary Group On North Korea on May 16th 2012 by Mr.Mark Fitzpatrick of IISS and Mrs. Park Sun-Young
What follows are the two papers delivered on May 16th to the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea. The contributing speakers were Mrs.Park Sun-Young, a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, who spoke about security and human rights issues...
Sudan, Kordofan, Chenguangchen, North Korea – riased in Queens Speech Debate and Parliamentary Questions
Sudan and South Sudan: May 17th 2012 Question 11.06 am Asked By Baroness Cox To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the humanitarian crisis in the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan. Baroness Northover: My Lords, we are deeply concerned at the...
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...