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| Lady Kinnock is patron or president of a number of charitable organisations, including ''Saferworld'', ''The Burma Campaign'' and ] (formerly ''The Bernt Carlsson Trust''). She founded ''One World Action'' on December 21, 1989, exactly one year after UN Commissioner for Namibia, ], was killed in the ] crash. | Lady Kinnock is patron or president of a number of charitable organisations, including ''Saferworld'', ''The Burma Campaign'' and ] (formerly ''The Bernt Carlsson Trust''). She founded ''One World Action'' on December 21, 1989, exactly one year after UN Commissioner for Namibia, ], was killed in the ] crash. | ||
| == Curriculum vitae == | |||
| BA (Education and History) (1965). Teaching diploma (1966). Teacher in nursery, primary and secondary schools (1967-1994). Honorary degrees: Thames Valley University and Kingston University. Honorary Doctorate, Brunel University. Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Newport. | |||
| Member of the European Parliament (since 1994). UK Labour Party Spokesperson for International Development in the European Parliament. Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (since 2002). | |||
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. President, One World Action. President of Welsh Council of Voluntary Associations. President of the annual Solidar Silver Rose Awards Jury. Vice-President, UK Women of the Year Lunch and Assembly. Patron of Saferworld. Patron, Jubilee 2000. Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas. Board Member, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Advisory Board Member of the International Research Network on Children and Armed Conflict. Member, Advisory Committee to the International Programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research. | |||
| Publications: 'Eritrea - images of war and peace' (1988); 'Namibia - birth of a nation' (1990); 'By Faith and Daring' (1993). | |||
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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. She is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee. She sits with the Party of European Socialists. She is a speaker of Welsh.
She is married to former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (who was created a life peer in 2005).
Lady Kinnock is patron or president of a number of charitable organisations, including Saferworld, The Burma Campaign 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.
Curriculum vitae
BA (Education and History) (1965). Teaching diploma (1966). Teacher in nursery, primary and secondary schools (1967-1994). Honorary degrees: Thames Valley University and Kingston University. Honorary Doctorate, Brunel University. Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Newport. Member of the European Parliament (since 1994). UK Labour Party Spokesperson for International Development in the European Parliament. Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (since 2002). Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. President, One World Action. President of Welsh Council of Voluntary Associations. President of the annual Solidar Silver Rose Awards Jury. Vice-President, UK Women of the Year Lunch and Assembly. Patron of Saferworld. Patron, Jubilee 2000. Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas. Board Member, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Advisory Board Member of the International Research Network on Children and Armed Conflict. Member, Advisory Committee to the International Programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Publications: 'Eritrea - images of war and peace' (1988); 'Namibia - birth of a nation' (1990); 'By Faith and Daring' (1993).
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