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Jan 1, 2025 | 
intpolicydigest.org | David Alton
In the shadowed corridors of Iran’s so-called Revolutionary Courts, a grim tableau of injustice unfolds—a chillingly familiar yet increasingly dire scenario as Tehran escalates its suppression of dissent through the machinery of death. Recently, six political prisoners—Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani-Amerian, Babak Alipour, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi—were sentenced to execution.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | David Alton
On the first anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh‘s 120,000-strong Armenian population by Azerbaijan, another storm is gathering in the South Caucasus – this time with the direct connivance of Russia.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
taipeitimes.com | David Alton |Helena Kennedy |Aarif Abraham
By David Alton, Helena Kennedy and Aarif Abraham / LONDON On Monday last week, some of the world’s leading international lawyers and cross-party UK parliamentarians sent a public letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary David Cameron, urging them to support the Genocide Determination Bill that is under discussion in the UK House of Lords.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
datanoticias.com | David Alton
Autores: , y LONDRES – El 15 de abril, algunos de los principales abogados internacionales y parlamentarios británicos de todos los partidos enviaron una carta pública al Primer Ministro británico, Rishi Sunak , y al Secretario de Asuntos Exteriores, David Cameron, instándolos a apoyar el proyecto de ley sobre determinación del genocidio que actualmente se está debatiendo en el Casa de señores.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | David Alton
LONDON – On April 15, some of the world’s leading international lawyers and cross-party UK parliamentarians sent a public letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary David Cameron, urging them to support the Genocide Determination Bill that is currently under discussion in the House of Lords.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | David Alton
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | David Alton
In April 2022, the Animal Welfare Sentience Act became law. The Act made provision for “an Animal Sentience Committee with functions relating to the effect of government policy on the welfare of animals as sentient beings”. It is of course right and proper that scientific understanding concerning animal sentience is regularly reviewed to inform our approach to animal welfare.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
martinplaut.com | David Alton |Martin Plaut
The upcoming commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Genocide should force the world to ask: “Why again?” By LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL After World War II, the UN created legal tools to define and punish genocide 153 nations adopted the convention, agreed to “prevent, protect and punish” Ongoing genocides show the world has not lived up to vows of “never again” On December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on...
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
americamagazine.org | David Alton
Nearly three-fourths of Gen Z consumers are willing to pay more for products that are environmentally sustainable, according to a poll released in 2020. But would Gen Z and the rest of us be willing to pay more for products that are not produced by slaves? Would this generation be willing to boycott products made in countries credibly accused of human trafficking?
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
parliamentnews.co.uk | David Alton
With 2000 refugees – escapees from North Korea – facing imminent repatriation from China, I have been meeting three brave escapees who have found freedom and made new lives in South Korea. Their stories are instructive, salutary and timely. As we met in Seoul, I told them about a courageous North Korean escapee, whom I encountered twenty years ago at Westminster. In telling me his shocking story he opened my eyes to the systematic, egregious, human rights violations committed by the Kim regime.
