Lord Alton of Liverpool and Ewelina Ochab, Author at Catholic Herald

Lord Alton of Liverpool and Ewelina Ochab

January 18, 2018

In 2014, ISIS began to establish its “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq. This meant torture, forced displacement, sexual slavery and abuse, as well as forced conversions, looting, the destruction of churches and many other horrors besides. There was no place for religious pluralism: establishing the purely Islamic state meant a genocidal campaign against religious minorities.

The international community is failing its obligation to protect Iraq’s persecuted minorities

August 12, 2014

Responsibility to protect is enshrined in Article 18 of the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights and was born in the embers of the Holocaust

It would be madness not to reach out to North Korea

April 18, 2013

Sixty years of on-off engagement has pushed the region to the brink of war

Margaret Thatcher was my political opponent, but it would be disingenuous to ignore her achievements

April 09, 2013

Unlike today's posturing MPs, The Iron Lady was a conviction politician

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