Tuesday June 25th, 2013 marks the anniversary of the outbreak, in 1950, of the Korean War. On July 27, it will be the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, signed in 1953. Over those three bloody years around three million people were killed –...
Building Bridges – Links to Interviews, North Korea Freedom Week, Ooberfuse, and Ann Shin's "The Defector" shown in the British Parliament – and mark the anniversaries of the Korean War
Tuesday June 25th, 2013 marks the anniversary of the outbreak, in 1950, of the Korean War. On July 27, it will be the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, signed in 1953. Over those three bloody years around three million people were killed –...
More than 80 Churchgoers were murdered in Pakistan -100,000 Christians killed each year – An Appeal for Religious Freedom and Toleration.
Report of A Lecture Given to The Disraeli Society at Christ Church, the University of Oxford, October 2013. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/opinion/columns/10766682.YOURS_FAITHFULLY__Let___s_be_tolerant_of_other_people___s_beliefs/ At the very moment when the murder...
Chen Guagncheng’s Visit To the UK – Chen is presented with the Westminster Award for Human Rights, Human Life and Human Dignity. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Issues Joint Statement with Chen.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng issued a joint statement calling for international leaders to confront China on their human rights violations...
Chen Guagncheng's Visit To the UK – Chen is presented with the Westminster Award for Human Rights, Human Life and Human Dignity. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Issues Joint Statement with Chen.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng issued a joint statement calling for international leaders to confront China on their human rights violations...
Drama and Music To Make Us Think: Disability Hate Crime, Religious Persecution, Bullying, Relationships, the Holocaust, North Korea, Scapegoating of Minorities…
North Korea Freedom Week – Hear Radio Merseyside interview on launch of Building Bridges www.bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside/programmes/a-z/by/d/current
www.bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside/programmes/a-z/by/d/current Radio Merseyside interview about Building Bridges. David Alton War Cry
Mesothelioma – 56,000 more deaths predicted – More Research Needed To Find A Cure – Debate in Parliament.
Mesothelioma Bill [HL] Second Reading 8.44 pm May 20th 2013. Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, in his opening speech, the Minister benchmarked our knowledge of mesothelioma to 1965. In that year, the Sunday Times reported on how an epidemiological investigation by...
South Kordofan and Blue Nile – the Killing Continues – Questions in Parliament – New Report By Amnesty International
June 2013 New Report By Amnesty international: New satellite imagery and eyewitness testimonies from rebel-held areas in Sudan’s Blue Nile State show that Sudanese military forces have resorted to brutal scorched earth tactics to drive out the civilian population. “We...
Gladys Aylward, the little woman, and China’s Inn of The Sixth Happiness – or more accurately, the Inn of the Eight Happinesses
Gladys Aylward, the little woman, and China's Inn of The Sixth Happiness - or, more accurately, the Inn of the Eight Happinesses There is a lovely movie, staring Ingrid Bergman, called “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.” Made in 1958 it celebrates the remarkable life of...
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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In advance of a debate on April 25th on how UK aid is used to support minorities in Pakistan, Government responds to my Question on why Ahmadi Muslims were not included on the single electoral list with all other voters in the recent elections in that country
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3227): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool.:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord...
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...