The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble, Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet. Important op ed published in Foreign Affairs by Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Hudson Institute’s Director, South & Central Asia, and Javid Ahmad.Senior...
London Ministerial on Freedom of Religion or Belief – Free to Believe or Not: End Criminalization of Apostasy and Blasphemy
UK Parliament Side Event Free to Believe or Not: End Criminalization of Apostasy and Blasphemy Date: 5 July 2022 Opening Remarks by Lord David Alton, Chair of event. Today’s event, Free to Believe or Not: End Criminalization of Apostasy and Blasphemy, is brought to...
The Right to Education and Pakistan Minorities – side event at the U.K. Ministerial on Religious Freedom – July 6th 2022
Right to Education and Pakistani Minorities Meeting on 5 July 2022 12:30-13:30 Role of the UK Aid - Lord Alton Speech by Lord Alton Background 1. Education is a fundamental right of every child, and it should be provided without any discrimination or bias....
Minister replies following the desecration of an Ahmadi Mosque in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of WimbledonMinister of State for South Asia and the CommonwealthPrime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in ConflictKing Charles Street LondonSW1A 2AH Dear David, Thank you for your email of 4 August following the...
Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s, former ambassador to the United States, says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” .
Three thoughtful essays on Afghanistan by Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States. He says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” perpetuating dysfunction at home and locking it into a...
Why cases like that of 13 year old Nayab Gill – forcibly married and converted in Pakistan- have led to the EU threatening to renegotiate it’s trade deals due to Pakistan’s human rights record.
The EU has recently been putting a lot of pressure on Pakistan and is threatening to renegotiate it’s trade deals due to Pakistan’s human rights record. The EU is concerned about cases like that of Nayab Gill, a 13 year old girl from a Christian minority family. She...
Queen’s Speech Debate “Uphold human rights and democracy across the world” 19th May 2021
https://youtu.be/dECBd26cBFw I would like to invite the Government to enlarge on the statement in the Gracious Speech that they will “ uphold human rights and democracy across the world.” I refer to various non-financial interests in the Register. The...
UK says it recognises the concerns of minority groups in Following reports that extremist ideology has been taught in schools in Pakistan, UK Ministers say “that the introduction of a single curriculum may be used to marginalise some communities” and that the new curriculum should promote diversity and inclusion
Pakistan's founder strongly believed in a diverse society where every citizen would be respected regardless of their religion or caste. Following reports that extremist ideology has been taught in schools in Pakistan, UK Ministers say "that the introduction of a...
Government responds to reports of attacks on an Ahmadiyya Mosque in Garmolavirkan, Punjab, Pakistan
Ahmadiyya Muslims are persecuted in Pakistan Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL14403): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's...
Dr.Shoaib Suddle- Chair of Pakistan’s Commission on Implementation of Minority Rights sets out a very welcome plan of action to deal with forced conversions and the coercive marriage of underage girls
Dr.Shoaib Suddle- Chair of Pakistan’s Commission on Implementation of Minority Rights sets out a plan of action to deal with forced conversions and the coercive marriage of underage girls U.K. Government published a Declaration of Humanity - championing young women...
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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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...
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.
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...