News From Waging Peace 5th ANNIVERSARY OF CONFLICT IN NUBA MOUNTAINS AND BLUE NILE Since 2011 civilians in South Kordofan and Blue Niles states in Sudan have endured regular aerial bombardment by the Sudanese armed forces – the latest and most shocking example of...
Singapore Management University’s Distinguished Education Lecture: Monday 30th 2015 – Educating for Citizenship – and link to Power Point Presentation
Singapore Management University's Distinguished Education Lecture: Monday 30th 2015 Click here for link to power point presentation accompanying the lecture: https://www.davidalton.net/media/ EDUCATION FOR CITZENSHIP University President, Professor De Meyer;...
House of Lords votes down amendment to provide greater protection for domestic migrant labour
House of Lords votes down amendment to provide greater protection for domestic migrant labour: Full debate: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/150325-0001.htm#15032588000969 For background see:...
Education for Citizenship, Singapore Management University’s Distinguished Education Lecture
Singapore Management University’s Distinguished Education Lecture - March 2015 Presentation slides: Singapore Management University’s Distinguished Education Lecture March 2015
The Plight of former President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives
Independent Crossbench Life Peer and former MP We Must Send the Maldivian Regime a Clear, Unambiguous and Robust Message: Their Behaviour Is Unacceptable Miscarriages of justice occur throughout the world, but few are as blatant and outrageous as the trial and...
Climbing Croagh Patrick – and a St.Patrick’s Day Greeting
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 I bind unto myself today The strong Name of the Trinity, By invocation of the same, The Three in One and...
Parliamentary Debate of the House of Lords Committee’s Report on the Use of Soft Power – March 10th 2015
Parliamentary Debate of the House of Lords Committee’s Report on the Use of Soft Power – March 10th 2015 6.16 pm Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, in debating the findings of this report, we clearly owe a great debt to the noble, Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford,...
Egypt’s Kristallnacht – Speech in The House of Lords – the February 2015 Beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya and Tribute to Dr.Helmy Guirguis, founder of the UK Copts
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...