The Washington Post today reported that Kazakhstan has been upbraided by the United Nations for misusing the blue helmets of UN Peacekeeper's - this follows reports that the Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, ordered troops to “shoot to kill” demonstrators without...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, says he is "shocked" that seven UN officials, including senior UN humanitarian officials, have been declared as persona non grata in Ethiopia. A famous predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, famously said that the United Nations "was not...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2469): Question:To ask Her Majesty's Government what further steps they plan to take at the UN General Assembly Third...
House of Lords 16th July 2021 Lord Alton of Liverpool:With Amnesty International’s report detailing arbitrary detention, forced indoctrination, torture, mass surveillance and crimes against humanity – along with newspaper reports from Xinjiang of the destruction of...
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...
As a Patron of HKW and an officer of the APPG on Hong Kong, I personally know Martin Lee, father of HK democracy, Margaret Ng, a formidable lawyer and Jimmy Lai, Champion of free speech and the full holder of a UK passport. Does the Minister agree they...
International Scandal As Escaping Christians Continue To Suffer Thailand’s Government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Bangkok have been accused of “negligence” after a Pakistani Christian asylum seeker died in a detention centre last month. ...
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...
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. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...