Though micro-measures aimed at those responsible might work: travel bans, asset seizures, arrest warrants.
There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.
A new report by the Party’s Human Rights Commission makes four main recommendations about North Korea’s crimes against justice.
There are signs that Cameron is increasingly sensitive to public concern and anger about the treatment of Christians in Muslim-majority countries
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist, a former Parliamentary Candidate, and is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Few people know more about North Korea than Lord Alton of Liverpool – and certainly no-one in Parliament. For over a decade, he has championed human rights in North Korea and peace on […]
Lord Alton of Liverpool is an independent cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Benedict Rogers is a human rights advocate with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, and author of ‘Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads’. Today, the House of Lords will devote at least an hour to debating Burma. Some may ask why – when the prevailing […]
Lord Alton of Liverpool was Liberal (later Liberal Democrat) MP in Liverpool between 1979 and 1997, when he stood down from the Commons and was awarded a life peerage. He left his party when abortion was made a party policy rather than a matter of conscience and sits in the Lords as an Independent Crossbencher. […]
Lord Alton, an independent crossbench life peer, asks why so much time and taxpayers’ money is spent on stem cell research when adult stem cells are already proven to be effective. A considerable majority of Peers – including 60% of Conservatives – believe that human embryos ought not to be used for experimentation if effective […]
It is not a substitute for justice, but it would be a welcome addition to how the UK responds to the most serious violations.