House of Lords - 11th December 2023Debate initiated by Baroness Anelay of St Johns https://youtu.be/XMtiRfqLP-I Full text to follow shortly
Illegal Migration Bill – Human Rights Joint Committee 22nd March.
Human Rights (Joint Committee) Wednesday 22 March 2023Subject: Legislative Scrutiny: Illegal Migration Bill Witnesses: Jon Featonby, Chief Policy Analyst, Refugee Council; Colin Yeo, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers; Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci, Senior Research Fellow in...
China & Putin’s War: International Relations & Defence Committee
International Relations and Defence CommitteeWednesday 18 May 2022 Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality. Lord Alton's questions to witness Meia Nouwens, Senior Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation, International...
Absence of any Dalits or Adivasis on Nepal national Human Rights Commission.
House of Lords, 13th December.I pressed the Government to raise with the Government of Nepal the absence of any Dalits or Adivasis on their national Human Rights Commission or even the Dalit Commission. I asked what percentage of Dalits had been give covid...
UNCLOS: fit for purpose in the 21st century? – Questions to Government Minister Lord Goldsmith 8/12/21
International Relations and Defence CommitteeWednesday 8 December 2021 Witness: The Right Hon. the Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Department for Environment,...
UK Government pushed to tackle the impunity of CCP officials such as Carrie Lam and Chen Quanguo.
Today the Government was pushed to tackle the impunity of CCP officials like Carrie Lam and Chen Quanguo for destruction of Hong Kong democracy and Uyghur Genocide. Lord Alton called for an audit of asset of CCP officials and their families. Raised the £430 million...
Government responds to reports of forced labour in Malaysian glove factories.
Government responds to reports in The Diplomat on 14 September, of the alleged use of forced labour in Malaysian disposable glove factories and to questions about what due diligence the Department of Health carried out in relation to the use of forced labour...
Minister confirms that UK is “aware of cases where China has pressured third countries to return Uyghurs” and has intervened “with positive results.”
Minister confirms that UK is "aware of cases where China has pressured third countries to return Uyghurs" and has told Turkey and other countries "to respect their obligations not to force persons to return to a country where there are substantial grounds for...
30 years behind bars. Eritrea tell the story of Bitweded Abraha.
On the 30th anniversary of his detention in Eritrea, Human Rights Concern Eritrea tell the story of Bitweded Abraha: Eritrea’s Honest Hero Who Became a Silenced Victim www.hrc-eritrea.org 5 October 2021 "Wednesday, 6 October, 2021, is the 30th anniversary of the...
Tigray – UK’s New Africa Minister Vicky Ford raises deep concerns over “human rights abuses.”
Vicky Ford MPMinister for AfricaKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AHLord AltonHouse of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW5 October 2021 Dear Lord Alton Thank you for your correspondence of 20 March about the situation in Ethiopia. I am replying as the Minister for Africa. I apologise...
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...