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| '''Caroline Ann Cox, Baroness Cox''' (born as '''Caroline Ann McNeill Love''', ] ]) is a ] peer who is Chief Executive of HART (The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust). She currently serves as Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She has also supported disability causes for many years. She is a Member of the World Committee on Disability and a Judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award. | '''Lady Caroline Ann Cox, The Baroness Cox of Queensbury''' (born as '''Caroline Ann McNeill Love''', ] ]) is a ] peer who is Chief Executive of HART (The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust). She currently serves as Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She has also supported disability causes for many years. She is a Member of the World Committee on Disability and a Judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award. | ||
| ==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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| ==Ennoblement== | ==Ennoblement== | ||
| Her peerage was announced on ], ] on a list of 'working peers'; she was a recommendation of ] ], and initially sat as a ]. Cox served briefly as a Baroness-in-Waiting (the junior rung of government) in 1985, but disliked the job and became instead a Deputy Speaker of the ] from 1986. | Her peerage was announced on ], ] on a list of 'working peers'; she was a recommendation of ] ], and initially sat as a ]. Cox served briefly as a Baroness-in-Waiting (the junior rung of government) in 1985, but disliked the job and became instead a Deputy Speaker of the ] from 1986. | ||
| ==Criticism== | |||
| Cox is a patron of the Christian Institute, which campaigned strongly against an equalization of the ] for heterosexual and homosexual sex and against the removal of ]. In September 2002, it was revealed that she had endorsed a book written by ]n missionary Wale Babatunde and sponsored a launch event for it at the House of Lords. The book claimed, among other things, that homosexuality was destructive, multiculturalism was ruining Britain and that abortion can be equated with the Holocaust . This incident was responsible for Cox relinquishing the Conservative whip in the Lords. | |||
| Despite Cox's role in the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction she has been criticized for apparently aiming to bring about a "]". She is a member of the ] which denying any ] and removing ]s from the ]. Her books have been republished on the ] website . | |||
| Cox's work in ] in supporting Christian groups in the north against the muslim-dominated government in ] (see ]) has seen criticism from some, including Muriel Mirak-Weißbach (a member of the editorial board of ]'s Executive Intelligence Review) who accused her of stoking "the flames of war in Africa" . The Muslim charity organistaion "Friends of Al Aqsa" claimed "Baroness Cox' involvement in anti-Islam activities is well-known especially in regions around the world where the legacy of the colonial policy of divide and rule continues to cause tension in Muslim-Christian communal relations such as in Sudan and Nigeria." | |||
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Lady Caroline Ann Cox, The Baroness Cox of Queensbury (born as Caroline Ann McNeill Love, 6 July 1937) is a Cross-Bench peer who is Chief Executive of HART (The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust). She currently serves as Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She has also supported disability causes for many years. She is a Member of the World Committee on Disability and a Judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award.
Background
Cox, the daughter of a surgeon from Hertford, was educated at Channing School in Highgate, London. She became a State Registered Nurse at London Hospital from 1958, and a Staff Nurse at Edgware General Hospital from 1960. She married Dr Murray Newall Cox in 1959, remaining with him until he died in 1997. The couple had three children, two sons and one daughter. In the late 1960s she studied for a degree at London University where she graduated with a First class honours degree in sociology in 1967; as a research assistant at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she upgraded to a Masters Degree in Economics.
Academic career
On leaving, Cox became a Sociology Lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London rising to become Principal Lecturer. From 1974 she was Head of the Department of Sociology. In 1977 she moved to become Director of the Nursing Education Research Unit at Chelsea College of the University of London. She was also made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. Her sociology background led her to write books about the subject for nurses, and she also wrote a book attacking Corruption at the Polytechnic of North London in 1975. She was founder Chancellor of the University of Bournemouth.
She is also a member of the Standing Conference on Women's Organisations, a Vice-President of the Girl Guides Association, a Director of the Educational Research Trust, a Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), a Patron of the Medical Aid for Poland Fund, a member of the Physicians for Human Rights (UK) a Non-executive Director of the Andrei Sakarov Foundation, an International Representative for Elam Ministries, and Hon Vice-Chairman International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction.
Ennoblement
Her peerage was announced on December 15, 1982 on a list of 'working peers'; she was a recommendation of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and initially sat as a Conservative. Cox served briefly as a Baroness-in-Waiting (the junior rung of government) in 1985, but disliked the job and became instead a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1986.