Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5688): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the announcement of a two-year...
UK says China’s decision to ban BBC World News – following its reports of atrocity crimes against Uighur women in mainland China – is ” an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom” and have raised it directly with the Chinese authorities.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL13781): Question by lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to...
Successful Conclusion of Campaign To Provide BBC World Service Transmissions to The Korean Peninsula. Also reports on human rights violations in North Korea
Lord Alton of Liverpool, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea: As Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, I welcome today’s announcement by the BBC of a Korean-language World Service. The announcement follows many years...
BBC World Service Korea
A group of young Koreans have started a campaign to persuade the BBC World Service to broadcast to the Korean peninsula. They have a Facebook page to which anyone wishing to support their campaign can link: http://www.facebook.com/BBCforKorea This link takes you to a...
North Korea Debated in Parliament – Peers Spotlight Security Huamn rights and Humanitarian Concerns
To view the debate on North Korea click here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12298 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uh05ubF56Q• https://www.davidalton.net/2013/01/11/the-prison-camps-of-north-korea/•...
The Independent – why the BBC should broadcast to the Korean Peninsula
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover/ian-burrell-the-worlds-most-isolated-people-could-do-with-london-calling-8120859.html
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...