Lord Alton on Article 18 after parliamentary debate

Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Vice Chair of this APPG, opened the debate on the ‘orphaned’ human right of Article 18 – the freedom of religion or belief  — in the House of Lords last week.  Read the full story of this important debate here. Lord Alton regular updates his blog www.davidalton.net with articles about human…

Sacred Islamic shrines in Iraq’s Mosul blown up by Islamic State

Sacred Islamic shrines in Iraq’s second largest city Mosul have been blown up by Islamic State (IS) militants with half a dozen revered places targeted and destroyed this past week, end of July 2014, reports The Guardian. The latest building to be bombed by the radical jihadists was the Prophet Jirjis mosque built over the…