Food Security Summit Question July 25th 2012 11.30 am Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, in the context where a malnourished child is eight times more likely to die than a child of normal weight, and where 3 million children are estimated to die of malnutrition every...
Minister's reply on food being used as a weapon of war in North Korea
Food Security Summit Question July 25th 2012 11.30 am Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, in the context where a malnourished child is eight times more likely to die than a child of normal weight, and where 3 million children are estimated to die of malnutrition every...
Iran and Capital Punishment – Why is the world so silent in face of Tehran’s appalling human rights record?- the fate of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani, facing execution in Iran
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-is-the-world-so-silent-in-face-of-irans-appalling-human-rights-record-8117379.html Iran: Capital Punishment — Question 11:28 am May 24th 2012 and, September 2012, the fate of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani - facing...
Rwanda’s Role In Eastern Congo Atrocities – Secretary of State Replies
Democratic Republic of Congo Question 11.06 am Asked by Lord Chidgey To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that mutineers in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have received assistance from foreign military...
Rwanda's Role In Eastern Congo Atrocities – Secretary of State Replies
Democratic Republic of Congo Question 11.06 am Asked by Lord Chidgey To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that mutineers in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have received assistance from foreign military...
Boko Haram, the Killing of Christians and Terror In Nigeria – Now Government Targets Homosexuals
Boko Haram, the Killing of Christians and Terror In Nigeria - Now Government Targets Homosexuals Nigeria Question Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool 27 Jan 2014 : Column WA200 To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that homosexuals in...
The 2015 Right To Life Memorial Walk In The Ribble Valley On Bank Holiday Monday was undertaken this year in memory of the late Jim Dobbin
The 2015 Right To Life Memorial Walk In the Ribble Valley on Bank Holiday Monday was undertaken this year in memory of the late Jim Dobbin, the chairman of the parliamentary all-party pro life group. His co-chairman, the recently re-elected Fiona Bruce MP, took part...
Climbing Croagh Patrick
For more on Croagh Patrick also see "Pilgrim Ways" (Chapter beginning at page 82) http://www.issuu.com/davidalton/docs/pilgrim-ways?mode=window&pageNumber=2 Mountain tops – from Sinai to Tabor – along with the remote places and wildernesses have always been...
Lessons of William Wilberforce
Presentation slides: Buckfast Abbey Clear Voices Conference 2012
Cornwall’s Christianity – from Launceston’s Cuthbert Mayne to Liscard’s Ladye Park, from John Wesley’s Bodmin Cottage to Sclerder Abbeyto
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/08/12/walking-cornwalls-saints-way-forth-an-syns/ There is nowhere in England that retains a more direct association with early Celtic Christianity than Cornwall. This is evident in the churches, the wayside crosses, the wells and...
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...