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The Right Honourable Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock (born in 1944) is a Welsh politician and Member of the European Parliament, for the Labour Party since 1994, winning reelection to the European Parliament successively in 1999 and 2004.
Glenys Kinnock was educated at Holyhead Comprehensive School and graduated at the University of Wales College, Cardiff in education and history. She has been a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools.
European Parliament
Lady Kinnock represents Wales and is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee. She is co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific/EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and is Labour spokesperson on International Development in the European Parliament.
Attributes
She is a speaker of Welsh.
In 1967, she married former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (who was created a life peer in 2005).
Lady Kinnock is patron, president or board member of a number of charitable organisations, including Saferworld, Drop the Debt, Parliamentarians for Global Action, The Burma Campaign, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, World Parliamentarian Magazine, Voluntary Service Overseas and One World Action (formerly The Bernt Carlsson Trust). She founded One World Action on December 21, 1989, exactly one year after UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 crash.
Publications
- Voices for One World, 1987
- Eritrea - images of war and peace, 1988
- Namibia - birth of a nation, 1991
- By Faith and Daring, 1993
- Zimbabwe on the brink, 2002