The Sale of Surveillance Equipment To Iran, Syria, And Other Regimes in North Africa and the Middle East http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/william-hague/8873387/British-firm-with-links-to-William-Hague-sells-protester-tracking-product-to-Iran.html...
Somali Refugee Camp in Kenya The Biggest In the World
November 8th 2011: Question In The Lords about Somali Refugees In Kenya Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, has the Minister seen the reports of 4 November from the United Nations that the number of Somali refugees fleeing war and drought to the Dadaab refugee complex...
Deeper In Debt: over £1 trillion owed in personal debt in the UK
House of Lords, Thursday November 3rd: Oral Question On Levels Of Personal DebtLord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) Has the Minister seen the latest figures for personal debt, showing that a staggering £1,450 billion is owed in personal debt by the nation at the...
Why is the UK selling intercept and surveillance tools to Iran? Updated November 16th 2011 – Government Departments Contradict One Another
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-07/u-k-urged-to-ban-sale-to-iran-of-software-used-to-crush-dissent.htmlQuestions for Written Answer...
United Nations Official Addressed London Meeting On North Korean Food Crisis – Thursday November 10th at 11.00am – at The House of Commons
All Party Group for North Korea Baroness (Valerie) Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and who has just returned from North Korea, gave her assessment of the situation in the...
Rome Reports: Defending Life At Every Stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QeixBMUj5M&feature=youtube_gdata "Rome Reports" - David Alton, an English Peer who defends life in all its phases
American Astronaut and Former Marine Backs PUST
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/New-university-is-opening-doors-in-North-Korea-2250897.php
Rome Reports: Defending Life At Every Stage
Rome Reports interviews Lord David Alton on his work around human rights and the sanctity of human life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QeixBMUj5M
Congo – elections, and why it matters
On November 28th, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will hold elections. A delegation of Catholic bishops from the Congolese Episcopal Conference was recently at Westminster, to urge the international community to increase the number of international...
Britain Needs To Mind The Gap
Minding The Gap As they step from the platform to the train at London's Embankment tube station passengers are frequently told to "mind the gap." It's advice to which the Government should pay attention. This month saw a further disturbing widening of the gap between...
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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Challenged the Government about the collecting and preserving of evidence of atrocity crimes in Darfur.
Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5801): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are aware of any...
Government responds to question asking what progress they have made on the men’s health strategy announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and says “we will shortly be launching a call for evidence”
From: Written Parliamentary Questions and Answers <[email protected]>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 12:01:05 PMTo: ALTON OF LIVERPOOL, Lord <[email protected]>Subject: Written answer to your QWA HL5761 received from Baroness Merron, the...
JCHR Inquiry into Transnational repression – 26th March 2025
Three witnesses gave compelling evidence to the JCHR Inquiry into Transnational repression – including disturbing evidence about the activities of States such as Eritrea and Russia. Watch here:...