January 16th 2015 Further Debate on the Falconer Bill. Is this "assisted dying" or "assisted suicide"? Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=16956&st=11:22:46.3370000 My Lords, I will be brief because I did hear...
Archive – indexed miscellaneous articles and columns
Miscellaneous archived columns on the following subjects: Abortion and the right to know Paying a price for courage Politicians and how they vote on ethical issues 30 years of abortion in the UK Abortion and the possible link with breast cancer Joanna Jepson’s fight...
Colombia – Trade Deal that threatens indigenous Colombians, Afro-Colombians, Human Rights Advocates, Natural resources and the Environment – “Good for British business and bad for Colombian human rights”
The Bilateral Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments between the United Kingdom and Colombia Scroll Down For The Full Debate... The Bilateral Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments between the United Kingdom and Colombia Lord...
As the last Christian is expelled from Mosul by ISIS – Times Article on why the world must respond to the cry of Iraq’s Christians – and the full text of the House of Lords debate on Article 18 and Freedom of Belief – with news of Meriam Ibrahim’s journey to Rome and ISIS subjecting women to female genital mutilation
http://blog.geopolitical-info.com/?p=957Article 18 – An article of faith Lord AltonAugust 12, 2014The United Nations doctrine ‘responsibility to protect’ has been flouted by the failure of international authorities to protect vulnerable minorities from sweeping...
As the last Christian is expelled from Mosul by ISIS – Times Article on why the world must respond to the cry of Iraq's Christians – and the full text of the House of Lords debate on Article 18 and Freedom of Belief – with news of Meriam Ibrahim's journey to Rome and ISIS subjecting women to female genital mutilation
http://blog.geopolitical-info.com/?p=957Article 18 – An article of faith Lord AltonAugust 12, 2014The United Nations doctrine ‘responsibility to protect’ has been flouted by the failure of international authorities to protect vulnerable minorities from sweeping...
British Parliament debates the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report into Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea – also see parliamentary replies
Also see The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/preventing-a-massacre-in-north-koreas-gulags/2014/07/25/b9d6a3fe-1284-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opnsatNorth Korea: Human Rights...
Royal British Legion Honoured in Liverpool Ceremony
Also see: https://www.davidalton.net/2013/12/01/world-war-one-day-of-world-war-one-poetry-in-liverpool-remembering-the-first-world-war-and-16-5-million-deaths/ Citation for a Corporate Award of Liverpool John Moores University for the Royal British Legion given by...
Strong parliamentary opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
Strong parliamentary opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
BBC World Service, British Council, The Use of Soft Power, and the Promotion of British Values and Interests Overseas
BBC World Service and British Council http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/140710-0001.htm#14071063000823 Motion to Take Note 12.27 pm July 10th 2014 Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool To move that this House takes note of the role of the BBC...
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...