Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL10122): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have...
https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1650999878883893248?s=46&t=bdJwQ39bSducVkIUM4iJbQ The report finds the new waves of violence since 2020 include killings, the use of rape and sexual violence, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, the use of child...
Genocide Determination Bill given a Second Reading in the House of Lords as Peers Agree To Commit It To A Committee Of The Whole House For Further Consideration . Full debate- Second Reading https://youtu.be/pP7MIZsGhMQ 1.40pm Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool ...
In Parliament Lord Alton highlighted betrayal of the national interest, by allowing the UK's security, academia, technology, and political systems to be interfered with by the Chinese Communist Party. Look through the lens of Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Wuhan, or...
Travelling to Washington to speak at a human rights Summit on Religious Freedom. During the Conference I will take part in a session on 'Implementing The Duty to Prevent Genocide: Global Approaches' on 29th June between1:30 and 2:30 PM. I will speak on the failures of...
The U.K. Statement to the UN Security Council on Delivering justice for the victims and survivors of ISIL atrocities missed the opportunity to call for the reform of the Security Council to remove the veto over referral of Genocide and atrocity crimes to the...
12.31pm Ms Nusrat Ghani (Wealden) (Con) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if she will make a statement on the shocking revelations on the BBC by Professor Adrian Zenz that the internment camps in...
Writing from the Ukraine 🇺🇦 BBC's Fergal Keane writes about the UN and history's greatest broken promise - the failure to uphold the 1948 Convention on the Crime of Genocide or to break the relentless cycle of war crimes and atrocity crimes Accounts of atrocities...
U.K. Government asked what plans they have to review their policy on genocide, further to Russia's actions in Ukraine and the Prime Minister's remarks during Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 March that President Putin's actions amount to war crimes Lord Ahmad of...
Lord Alton chaired the first hearing of the Hazara Inquiry and heard from four experts raising their concerns about the situation of Hazaras in Afghanistan including the slow motion genocide. For anyone wishing to contribute to the inquiry, or for more information...
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...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI [London, 16 April 2024] Today, the APPG for Pakistani Minorities, a cross-party parliamentary...