Women & Children First - Patrons
Baroness Afshar of Heslington
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar OBE, (born 1944) is a Professor in Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York and Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé. Of Iranian origin, she worked as a journalist before and after her initial studies at York, where she returned after receiving her PhD from Cambridge University. Afshar serves on several bodies, notably the British Council and the United Nations Association, of which she is Honorary President of International Services. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours list of June 2005. On October 18, 2007 it was announced that she would be created a baroness and join the House of Lords as a cross-bench (non-party political) peer. She was formally introduced into the House of Lords on December 11, 2007, as Baroness Afshar of Heslington in the County of North Yorkshire.
Baroness Amos
Baroness Amos was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. She was the longest serving Leader of the Lords since the mid-1980s and second longest in the last half century. Following a successful career in Local Government, Baroness Amos was Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1989 ¬ 1994, before working extensively in post-Apartheid South Africa. From 1998 to 2001 Baroness Amos was appointed a Government Whip in the House of Lords. She was also the International Development Spokesperson from 1998 to 2007 and the Minister of State for Africa from 2001 to 2003. In 2003 she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development.
Between 2003 -2007 Baroness Amos became Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President to the Privy Council. She also attended the Africa Union summit on behalf of HM Government in Accra, Ghana 2007, and the EU/AU Summit in Portugal 2007.
Professor David Latchman
David Latchman is the Master of Birkbeck College, University of London and a Professor of Genetics. He has published extensively in the field of Genetics and Molecular Biology and serves as Chair of London Higher which is the representative ‘umbrella’ organisation for universities and higher education colleges in London.
Baroness Massey of Darwin
A former teacher and education advisor, Baroness Doreen Massey was the Director of the Family Planning Association from 1989 to 1994. She was made a Life Peer of Darwen in the County of Lancashire in 1999 and has worked in the House of Lords as member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated and Complementary Healthcare. She is a very active member of the House of Lords and has focused keenly on the Children and Young Persons Bill.
Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette, a supporter of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, divides her time between being a full time writer and mother. After several years as a singer with the Salami Sisters, and working as a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York and a television sitcom writer for Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles, her ten novels became international best-sellers. Through witty wordplay, Kathy's satires on the sex war touch on real issues - from exploring how young Australian girls allowed themselves to be treated as human handbags by their boyfriends to marriage, infidelity and childbirth. Her quips persuade us that for the female of the species it's probably a case of laugh or die, especially when thinking of the horrors of the Pudding Club.
“It’s a man’s world,” she says. “Women still don’t get have equal pay, we’re getting concussion hitting our heads on the glass ceiling and we’re expected to windex it whilst we’re up there. And yet it’s a million times worse in the developing world where women face war, famine, poverty, sexism, rape, child labour, violence and the indifference of corrupt governments with nothing more than hope, which is a little like facing up to Darth Vader with a butter knife. The reason I want to help Women and Children First, is that women should be each other’s human wonder bras – uplifting, supportive and making each other look bigger and better”.
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