Oral Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool in Parliament today: .Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, can the Minister study this morning’s statement by openDemocracy, which includes an appeal by a survivor of the 1988 mass executions of Iran’s political prisoners,...
China and Hong Kong: David and Goliath Struggle The UK and Commonwealth should guarantee the citizenship, resettlement rights and right of abode of Hong Kong people in Commonwealth countries. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will….In a gentle way, you can shake the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
China and Hong Kong: David and Goliath Struggle The UK and Commonwealth should guarantee the citizenship, resettlement rights and right of abode of Hong Kong people in Commonwealth countries. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an...
Pentecost Golden Jubilee of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral; Funeral of Edge Hill’s former Vicar, Alan Godson; Arab Hope Maker Award to Cairo’s Mama Maggie; General Election June 8th 2017 – Election Notebook – recalling earlier contests.Parliamentary Questions raised by David Alton.
Pentecost and a Golden Jubilee The eve of Pentecost was the perfect time to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Liverpool’s Cathedral of Christ the King. The Cathedral choirs began the wonderful evening of celebration...
Archive – House of Commons1980s
Results 21 to 30 of 95 Local Government Finance (No. 2) Bill Lords — May 13, 1982 Baroness, Lady Stedman, and by my honourable friend David Alton, and by the honourable Member, Mr. Roberts, in another place. It has been put down so many times, and so many attempts...
Karen Human Rights Group Highlight The Lethal Danger of Landmines in Southeast Burma, where the use of landmines by the Junta and other armed actors has proliferated.
Karen Human Rights Group Highlight The Lethal Danger of Landmines in Southeast Burma, where the use of landmines by the Junta and other armed actors has proliferated (scroll down). First, a recollection of my reports from illegal visits into the Karen State during the...
Czech Ambassador Robert Rehák & Petra Kaplanová have kindly made available a video recording of the opening speeches at the recent Prague IRFBA Ministerial Conference “Freedom of Religion under Authoritarian Regimes”.
Czech Ambassador Robert Rehák & Petra Kaplanová have kindly made available a video recording of the opening speeches at the recent Prague IRFBA Ministerial Conference “Freedom of Religion under Authoritarian Regimes”. Watch & Listen to my address here:...
House of Lords Debate on Sino-British relations following the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the recent suppression of peaceful demonstrations in Hong Kong.
https://twitter.com/davidaltonhl/status/1676986091608457220?s=46&t=bdJwQ39bSducVkIUM4iJbQ This debate is sourced from the uncorrected (rolling) version of Hansard and is subject to correction. Question for Short Debate 4.00pm Asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish...
Why the Northern Ireland Troubles and Reconciliation Bill Should Not Proceed And Should First Be Sent To The Northern Ireland Assembly – Once It Is Reconstituted – For Consideration – Second Reading Debate
Why the Northern Ireland Troubles and Reconciliation Bill Should Not Proceed And Should First Be Sent To The Northern Ireland Assembly - Once It Is Reconstituted - For Consideration - Second Reading Debate 9.06pm November 24th 2022 Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)...
Washington Post:Opinion: How China weaponizes psychiatry against dissent. Juliet Samuel Daily Telegraph
Opinion: How China weaponizes psychiatry against dissent WASHINGTON POST Editorial Board August 19, 2022 A decade ago, China passed laws dealing with mental illness, seeking to bury the arbitrary...
Essay for GIS Reports: A high-stakes game of snakes and ladders: Russia’s war on Ukraine is a last stand for the international rules-based order. The West will need to rally fierce and unwavering support for the defender and global freedoms to prevail.🇺🇦
🇺🇦 Putin’s War - the high stakes in a lethal game of snakes and ladders. https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/russia-war-ukraine-global/ LORD ALTON OF LIVERPOOL Russia’s war on Ukraine is a last stand for the international rules-based order. The West will need to rally...
It was with great sadness that the death was announced today – June 23rd – of Frank Doran MBE.
Frank and his wife Sandra. Frank Doran MBE It was with great sadness that the death was announced today – June 23rd - of Frank Doran MBE. A former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Frank was first elected in 1973 and had served as a Liverpool City Councillor and Merseyside...
Flags and Flowers in the Ukraine.
Flags and Flowers in the Ukraine. Writing in today’s Telegraph,Charles Moore recalls how, as an 11-year-old, he heard the news that Russian tanks had moved into Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring of Alexander Dubcek. ...
Lessons we can learn from Desmond Tutu’s struggle against apartheid as we combat the Iranian regime’s crimes against its own people and its nuclear threat to the rest of the world
Global Unity Can Defeat Any Evil, be it in South Africa or Iran By David Alton - Politics January 13th 2022 https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/CchCCxnKDC7grxBC8k7P6?domain=politics.co.uk/ Archbishop Desmond Tutu was laid to rest on Jan 1. He was truly instrumental in...
Displaced People Worldwide Debate – House of Lords
House of Lords 6th January 2022Lord Alton of Liverpool to move that this House takes note of (1) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ estimate that 82.4 million people are displaced worldwide, 42 per cent of whom are children, and 32 per cent of whom are...
TS Eliot said “Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s language and next year’s words await another voice”. Whose voices will now be raised for those living in the perpetual bitter winter of persecution because of their beliefs? Setting the People Free.
Setting the People Free: Talk Given To the Anglican Benefice of St. Wilfrid, St.John’s and All Hallows, Lancashire. December 2021 Canon McConkey told me that the theme which would link these Advent Talks were the words from the hymn “ Come thou long expected Jesus...
Tigray: “At least 400,000 people had crossed the threshold of famine.”
This article "Conditions in the peace prize laureate's country"- detailing the appalling suffering in Tigray - has been published in the Norway's Aftenposten "Children die of starvation. The doctors who are trying to save them are fainting from food shortages"...
Two decades ago Parliament was alerted to the scale of human rights abuses by the CCP in China – the leopard hasn’t changed its spots.
Coercive Population Control in China – 2001 Extracts from Hansard (a) Lord Alton’s speech at Committee Stage – 16th July 2001 I signed Amendments Nos. 23 and 24, together with the noble Baroness, Lady Rawlings, the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, who apologises to the...
In advance of the launch tomorrow of a new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea a letter has been sent today to Dominic Raab about the CCP’s forced repatriation of 50 North Korean escapees on 14th July. These North Koreans will without doubt end up in prison and labour camps where they will very likely die, either by execution or as a result of the dire conditions and mistreatment.
19 July, 2021 The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP Secretary of State Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH Dear Foreign Secretary, We are writing to bring to your attention the forcible repatriation of 50...
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has today published its important report “Never Again: The UK’s Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond”. It says that the Government must act on the decision by the Commons to name atrocities in Xinjiang as a Genocide.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/78/foreign-affairs-committee/news/156425/fac-xinjiang-detention-camps-report-published-21-22/ The Foreign Affairs Committee today publishes its report “Never Again: The UK's Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and...
Excellent NEW BRIEFING from Hong Kong Watch: As the crackdown continues, UK government must improve lifeline for Hong Kongers and BNOs – while Stephen Kinnock MP says that the U.K. Government needs to up its game
Stephen Kinnock MP says that one year after the passing of the National Security Law, the U.K. Government needs to up its game:...
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...